The Federation of Bachelor of Education (BEd), Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) unemployed youths held a sit-in outside the residence of the state education minister Arvind Pandey on Wednesday. The members of the federation later met the administrative officer of the minister who assured them that their demand would be brought to the notice of the minister. Meanwhile, the sit- in by the agitating members of the federation at the education directorate completed its 114 days on Wednesday.
The members of the federation are annoyed over the state government’s decision to change the ‘ teacher recruitment guidelines’ which dispensed with the practice of following a pattern in selection of primary teachers in which the year- wise seniority of doing the B.Ed degree was considered paramount in making the merit list for selection.
The patron of the federation, Manveer Rawat said that thousands of the unemployed B Ed –TET qualified candidates are agitated over the unwarranted change in the selection criteria of the teachers.