The various federations of the unemployed youths are hoping that the new Chief Minister Harish Rawat would accept their demand for Gvernment jobs before the model code of conduct due to the three tier Panchayat elections is enforced in the State. These federations are retorting to Dharnas, picketing and protest marches to pressurise the State Government.
The Bachelor of Education (BEd) and Teacher’s Eligibility Test (TET) qualified unemployed youths, Physical education trained unemployed graduates, Shiksha Mitras and Shiksha Acharyas are on path of agitation for many days in support of their demands.
The Shiksha Mitras who get a monthly stipend of Rs 13,000 per month are demanding that they should be merged into the primary teacher cadre of State Government.
On Friday, they gathered at the parade ground and took out a procession.
On Thursday too they attempted to Gherao the State Assembly. The unemployed BEd and TET qualified youths are demanding that the recruitment process in the recently revived posts of 5,000 teachers should start immediately.
There are about thirty thousand such youths, their worry is that after 30 March this year they will become ineligible for appointments in the primary schools as per the new policy of Central Government’s HRD Ministry. A delegation of these youths met the State Chief Minister Harish Rawat at his residence at Bijapur Guest house on Thursday.
They claimed after the meeting that Rawat has assured them that the Government Order (GO) for recruitment would be released soon.
The Siksha Acharyas are pressurising the Government to convert them into Siksha Mitras. A total of 2,883 Shiksha Mitras were employed under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and 1113 Shiksha Acharyas were made Shiksha Mitras by the government.
The remaining 770 candidates are demanding that they too should be absorbed as Shiksha Mitras and are sitting on a Dharna form June 3, 2012 at the old Raipur bus stand near Parade ground. The unemployed Bachelor of Physical Education (B.P.Ed) and Master of Physical Education (M. P. Ed) trained graduates are also sitting in a Dharna at Raipur bus stand here for last 161 days.
They are demanding that a post of physical education teacher in the primary schools of the state should be created. On Friday they picketed in front of Yamuna Colony residence of education minister Mantri Prasad Naithani.
Indira chairs meet, gives directions
To discuss the issue of filling the approved vacant posts of teachers in the Primary and Secondary schools of State, the Cabinet Sub Committee constituted by the Chief Minister Harish Rawat met at State Assembly here on Friday. The finance minister Indira Hriyadesh chaired the meeting, she said that various important decisions were taken in the meeting and after more consultations some other decisions would also be taken soon. Hriyadesh asked the education department officers to discuss the issues and problems among themselves and then bring clear points before the sub committee.
In the meeting the Education minister Mantri Prasad Naithai, Additional Chief Secretary Rakesh Sharma, Secretary Education S Raju, Director General Education Radhika Jha, Director Secondary education C S Gwal, Director Basic education Rakesh Kunwar and other senior officials of education department participated.