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24K quota posts. Not many takers
Here is a bit of news for all those in favour of reservation. The Bihar government is twiddling its thumb over 24,000 vacancies of government teachers.
Despite receiving applications in lakhs, these vacancies have not been filled up yet. The reason: These are all in the reserved category and there aren't enough applicants.
And there is no way these seats can be given to willing candidates from the general category.
State HRD commissioner M M Jha said, "We have already appointed over one lakh teachers. But many vacancies remain as we do not have enough candidates from the reserved categories."
He said almost all ST, SC and EBC (Extremely Backward Caste) candidates had already been given jobs. Yet, a large number of vacancies exist.
In another attempt to draw applications, the department has issued circulars asking appointment centres to issue fresh advertisement from SC, ST and EBC candidates.
Jha said he was hopeful that the new advertisements would prompt more candidates to apply. But he also agreed that it was likely that candidates with minimum qualifications and a desire to become a teacher may have all applied the first time itself.
"There is no choice at the moment. Reserved jobs have to go to candidates from reserved categories. If after the fresh round of advertisements, vacancies still remain we will advertise again and again," he said.
Jha also ruled out any further relaxation of minimum qualification for such categories. "Already we have relaxed the minimum educational qualification from class 12 to matriculation for the reserved candidates. They need not be trained either," he said.
He said the department would have to try its level best to fill these posts appropriately. "If vacancies remain even after trying two to three times, we will approach the state government to take a decision on whether to convert these posts into general category," Jha said.
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