The Federation of the Bachelor of Education (B.Ed)/Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) qualified candidates has welcomed the decision of Uttarakhand High Court (HC) on recruitment of primary teachers in the Government schools of the State. The Federation is demanding that the department should now initiate a fresh drive for all the vacant posts of teachers.
A meeting of State coordination committee of the federation was convened at Gandhi Park of the city on Monday. The members of the federation said that a recent RTI query has revealed that 2158 posts of the primary teachers would remain vacant even after the appointment of 1200 candidates selected in the recent recruitment drive. They demanded that the new drive for 3258 posts should be initiated now.
The general secretary of the federation Dharmendra Bhaskar said that it the department fails to increase the number of posts in the recruitment drive than the federation would be forced to launch a massive agitation.
On Friday the Uttarakhand High Court’s (HC) had canceled the recruitment process of assistant teachers in primary schools of the state and asked the department to initiate a fresh recruitment drive in which the Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed.) and TET level I qualified candidates should also be allowed to participate.There are more than 30000 B.Ed/ TET qualified candidates in the state. The court order means that for the job of a primary teacher now these candidates would have to compete with D.El.Ed qualified candidates.