Ludhiana January 28
Around 17,000 Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) passed unemployed candidates have become bone of contention for the state government. The unemployed graduates, who passed the teacher eligibility test in recent years, are now organised under the TET Passed Unemployed Teachers Union.
Implementing the Right to Education Act 2009, the National Council for Teachers (NCTE) has made the Teacher Eligibility Test compulsory for the recruitment of the teachers in schools.
However, the State council of Education Research and Training issued the certificate to TET passed candidates mentioning that ‘qualifying TET would not confer the right of any person for recruitment as it is only one of the eligibility criteria for appointment’.
But the TET Passed Unemployment Union considers it to be government’s tactic for not recruiting the qualified teachers.
State council of Education Research and Training, Punjab, conducted three tests in the past three years. In year 2011, around 9,000 candidates passed the test. Meanwhile, in second test around 8,000 teachers cleared the eligibility test. In year 2013, only 800 teachers passed the TET test.
Kalbushan, an activist of TET Passed Unemployed Teachers Union, said, “A large number of posts of teachers are lying vacant in government schools of Punjab. The well qualified TET passed teachers are ready to serve in the schools but the government is not recruiting us.”
As many as 36 male activists, including leaders of the union, were arrested by the city police on Republic Day at Chatar Singh Park in Ludhiana. “We were protesting peacefully on January 26, which is our democratic right. But the police arrested our leaders and activists to sabotage our movement for employment,” said Kalbhushan.
Meanwhile, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan teachers’ union condemned the move of government to arrest the activist of TET passed unemployment Union.
Around 17,000 Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) passed unemployed candidates have become bone of contention for the state government. The unemployed graduates, who passed the teacher eligibility test in recent years, are now organised under the TET Passed Unemployed Teachers Union.
Implementing the Right to Education Act 2009, the National Council for Teachers (NCTE) has made the Teacher Eligibility Test compulsory for the recruitment of the teachers in schools.
However, the State council of Education Research and Training issued the certificate to TET passed candidates mentioning that ‘qualifying TET would not confer the right of any person for recruitment as it is only one of the eligibility criteria for appointment’.
But the TET Passed Unemployment Union considers it to be government’s tactic for not recruiting the qualified teachers.
State council of Education Research and Training, Punjab, conducted three tests in the past three years. In year 2011, around 9,000 candidates passed the test. Meanwhile, in second test around 8,000 teachers cleared the eligibility test. In year 2013, only 800 teachers passed the TET test.
Kalbushan, an activist of TET Passed Unemployed Teachers Union, said, “A large number of posts of teachers are lying vacant in government schools of Punjab. The well qualified TET passed teachers are ready to serve in the schools but the government is not recruiting us.”
As many as 36 male activists, including leaders of the union, were arrested by the city police on Republic Day at Chatar Singh Park in Ludhiana. “We were protesting peacefully on January 26, which is our democratic right. But the police arrested our leaders and activists to sabotage our movement for employment,” said Kalbhushan.
Meanwhile, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan teachers’ union condemned the move of government to arrest the activist of TET passed unemployment Union.
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