The Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) and Teachers Eligibility Test (TET)-qualified unemployed youths of the State are now waiting for the education department to release supplementary merit list of candidates for Primary Teachers. The department recently completed the recruitment for 2794 posts of Primary teachers out of which 266 posts are still vacant.
The additional director of State Council of education Research and Training (SCERT) RD Sharma informed that the department has received the list of vacant posts from all the districts and it would soon release the supplementary merit list of the left out candidates.
The Federation of B.Ed./ TET unemployed youths are staging in sit in front of education directorate in support of their demand of releasing the supplementary merit list for the left out candidates in the present recruitment drive. There are more than 25000 B.Ed. / TET unemployed youths in the state. The federation is demanding that apart from the vacant 266 posts the department should also add 389 posts which state Chief Minister Harish Rawat promised to them.
Similarly they are also pinning hopes on the education department to add the 789 more posts which the state government recently created for disaster affected areas. The General Secretary of the Federation Manvir Rawat said that the federation on the assurance of state Chief Minister Harish Rawat had suspended its agitation in the month of October. He said that the CM at that time has assured that 389 and 1800 more posts would be added in the special recruitment of 2794 posts of primary teachers for B.Ed. / TET unemployed youths. Rawat said that the unemployed youths would be forced to intensify their agitation if their demands are not accepted soon.