PERC demands to complete recruitment process
within 100 days besides merit on 50:50
basis of basic qualification and
tests
Teachers’ recruitment process in Punjab becomes
questionable :
Unemployed youths in stress over new policy of recruitment
Completion of recruitment process not possible
because of lengthy examination procedures
In Punjab, the living conditions of around 2.70
lakh educated youths are worst than the daily wagers and they are being grinded
in the machine of unemployment. Out of this, about 40,000 are out of the
recruitment process because of over age and only 22,000 youths who have cleared
the eligibility test are eligible for recruitment. According to government estimates, more than
30,000 posts of teachers are lying vacant in government schools to be
filled-up. At present, the advertisement
for only 10130 posts have been released which include 3522 ETT, 6050 Masters
and 650 Lecturers of different subjects.
Now the questions are being raised for 22,000
teachers, who have cleared the TET test and about more than 2 lakh educated unemployed youths
out of the recruitment process because the government is backing out from
filling up the vacant posts by entrapping them in new recruitment policies from
time to time.
According to the logistics, firstly the government
had shown the outdoor to thousands of educated unemployed youths since 2011 by
introducing the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) and now the remaining 22,000
are facing number of problems on thrashing the new recruitment policy.
If we first talk about 3522 TET pass youths,
earlier there used to be joint merit of 10+2 and TET Diploma but in the new
education policy, only the TET qualified are to be considered as the base for
eligibility numbers. Keeping aside the
basic qualification in preparation of merit list is nothing but to enter into
unnecessary litigation in the courts.
Not only this, another test of 150 numbers has to
be cleared alongwith the TET as the recruitment basis will be TET and the
numbers obtained in the additional test.
Here too, the qualifications of BA/BSc/BEd have been ignored in the
merit list.
The service conditions of 650 Lecturers in
different 12 subjects have been fixed
with two papers of 150 numbers each.
In all, the eligible candidates for Lecturers are
not happy with the new recruitment policy of the government.
As per the sources, the fee of Rs.500 ETT teachers,
and Rs.250 for SC/ST teachers, Rs.700 for Bed Masters and Misterss and Rs.350
for Lecturers has been fixed for
applying for the post. More than one
lakh applications have been received while fixing the test for lecturers for
the first time.
It is pertinent to mention here that the
government is yet to arrange tests for the subjects related to lecturers. Because of lengthy recruitment process –
taking of test, making of merit list, issuing of appointment letters etc. – the
chances of finalizations of recruitment process as hitherto looks to be remote.
When Punjab Education Reforms Committee
spokesperson Hans Raj was contacted, firstly he appreciated the starting of
recruitment process but put a demand before the Education Minister that the
entire process of recruiting should be completed within a period of 100 days
besides making a little amendment in the recruitment formula of merit – 50
percent on the basis of basic
eligibility and 50 per cent on the concerned tests so that the recruitment
process is finalized easily and properly.
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