Candidates awaiting recruitment as government teachers in Bihar took to Twitter within the run up to Rakshabandhan to intensify their demand for counselling and appointment, having successfully completed the primary two rounds of the sixth phase of recruitment for over 90,000 teaching vacancies.
BiharTeachers’sAppointment has gained plenty of traction within the previous couple of days with aspirants tagging chief minister, education minister, additional Chief Secretary (education) et al with the plea to “release appointment letters”. Women aspirants wrote their messages on their palms using henna before posting it online to align with the festival of Rakshabandhan.
“Till the Bihar government doesn’t give appointment letters to any or all the chosen candidates [in the 2 rounds] and announces counselling dates for the third round, our Twitter campaign won’t end,” the twitter handle @ShikshaBihar declared.
Education minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary said aspirants shouldn’t worry because the delay was procedural in nature. “I have assured them to not worry. All those that are selected will get their appointment letters but the processes must be completed. The third stage counselling will begin and that we will issue appointment letters for all of them after verification of documents to avoid hassles post appointment,” he said.
The authorities is treading cautiously with recruitment of teachers to confirm the method is error-free, unlike the past, resulting in reprimands from courts and allegations of irregularities. a pair of months ago, those that had qualified within the secondary teachers’ eligibility test (STET), were lathi-charged by the police as they protested following a confusion over the merit list issued by the Bihar school examination board (BSEB). The minister later clarified that the STET merit list was just for determining eligibility and therefore the merit list for appointment are going to be issued by the recruiting agencies at the amount of panchayati raj institutions as per the laid down processes.
Earlier, counselling in 400 recruiting agencies at the panchayat level had to be cancelled thanks to irregularities within the preparation of the merit list. Some more irregularities have surfaced, while the administration awaits counselling reports from around 22 districts.
Once the reports come and therefore the verification of documents is finished, appointment letters are issued to all or any those selected, but the processes need to be followed. The schedule for [appointment of] another 30,000 teachers in secondary schools will be out soon. There are vacancies and also the government wants to fill all of them to form sure schools run properly,” said the minister.
