The post offices of the State are facing a huge rush of the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) aspirants as the last date of filing the form of Uttarakhand TET is approaching. long queues of such candidates can be witnessed at the post offices for purchase and dispatch of these forms.The Uttarkhand Vidhyalayi Shiksha Parishad (UVSP) is conducting these examination after an interval of three years due to which the large number of candidates are lining up for the forms. The senior Post master of Dehradun General post office G M Taneja said that more than 2100 forms are disbursed daily to the UTET aspirants and special counters are set up to cater the extra load of such candidates.
The UVSP has kept a fee of Rs 1000 for general candidates aspiring for both TET I and TET II while fee for OBC and SC/ ST candidates is Rs 500. The general category candidates wishing to appear in only one paper need to submit Rs 600 while the fees for reserve category candidates for one paper is Rs 200. The National Council Teacher Education (NCTE) guideline mandates that for being eligible to teach classes I to V the candidate apart from a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree should have qualified level I of TET.
For being eligible for teaching classes VI to VIII the minimum qualification is now B.Ed. degree along with TET level II qualification. There are thousands of B.Ed qualified candidates in the state which were waiting for this examination for long. The last date for the application form to reach the Haldwani based UVSP is January 24.