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Teachers' recruitment slows down
The state government had initiated a massive recruitment drive in September last year to recruit 1.5 lakh teachers for its schools.
The state government had initiated a massive recruitment drive in September last year to recruit 1.5 lakh teachers for its schools. Another 60,000 were to be hired in the second phase.
Against the 1.5 lakh vacancies in the first phase, a staggering 50 lakh applications were received. But despite many rounds of progress reviews, only about 65,000 teachers have been appointed so far.
State education minister Brishen Patel, however, told TOI: "It is a massive exercise and there are bound to be problems in the initial stages.
"The recruitment has been slow, but we are sure that we will meet our target in the coming months." Patel also indicated that the education department may club the vacancies of the first phase along with the second phase.
"It is a learning process for us and we will be better prepared for the second phase of recruitment," he said. Hiring of teachers in Bihar has come after more than 10 years and is seen as a major milestone in the present NDA government's regime.
In fact, the recruitment drive to improve the student-teacher ratio from the current 90:1 to a nationally recommended 40:1 is being portrayed by the state government as a vital reform.
Patel said: "The recruitment has been done by the Panchayati Raj institutions. We had totally decentralised the process so as to bring in more transparency and people's participation."
"We have come to know that mukhiyas and other representatives at the village and block levels were unable to comprehend the nuances of the recruitment drive fully," he said, adding the main reason behind it that at many places, after the merit lists were drawn up, some did not turned up to collect their appointment letters.
As per the instructions, the authorities concerned should have invited applicants next in the order of merit. But, this did not happen. He said this was the reason several posts were not filled.
"But, we have sent our officials to all the districts to explain the process to the local authorities concerned."
"We hope more recruitments will take place soon and more posts would be filled up," the minister said. Speaking about the training of newly-appointed teachers, Patel said: "We have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for training the shiksha Mitras. We will spend Rs 4,000 for training of each teacher."
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