The agitating federation of Bachelor of Education (B Ed)/ Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) qualified unemployed candidates retorted to locking the entrance of the Education Directorate on Thursday.
The members of the federation are camping at the education directorate from last many days and on Thursday they locked the main entrance of the directorate for one-and-a-half hour. The agitating members then organised a sit-in at the entrance. Addressing the members the President of the federation, Manveer Rawat said that the state government is not heeding to the plight of the unemployed.
He said that thousands of the youths across the State would be rendered not eligible for the post of primary teachers in the government schools of the State after March 31, 2016. Rawat said that large numbers of post of primary teachers are lying vacant in the schools of the state but the state government is not starting a recruitment drive for these posts.
He said that the state education department is falsely claiming that the vacancies are not there in primary education cadre.