The agitating unemployed youths are now pinning their hopes on new Chief Minister Harish Rawat to fulfill their demand of Government jobs. On Thursday Cabinet Minister Mantri Prasad Naithani told the delegation of these youths that all the matters related with the education would be taken up during the Cabinet meeting of February 7.
The physical education trained unemployed graduates and the Bachelor of Education (B. Ed) and Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) qualified youths are on a path of agitation to press for their demands. The B Ed and TET qualified youths are demanding that the Government should increase the number of vacancies of primary teachers from the recently advertised 980 posts, as more than 6,500 posts of primary teachers are lying vacant in the State.
These youths are anxious as after March 31 they would become ineligible for being employed in the primary schools. There are more than thirty thousand B ED and TET qualified youths in Uttarakhand. A delegation of B ED and TET qualified unemployed youths under the leadership of their president Baldev Singh Bhandari met Chief Minister Harish Rawat at his residence recently where the new Chief Minister assured them that there demands would be looked sympathetically.
The physical education trained unemployed graduates are also sitting on a Dharna at Parade Ground for last 146 days. They are demanding that a post of physical education teacher should be created in the primary schools of the State as such posts are there in other States also. President of the federation Sunder Dhoni claimed that during the meeting, the Chief Minister had assured them that the Cabinet would soon approve the proposal to create post of physical education teacher in primary schools.
The lowly paid Siksha Acharyas are also on warpath with the State Government to convert them into Siksha Mitras.