AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN): After Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb’s proposal to the PMO to modify the NCTE norms to appoint teachers without professional qualifications, sharp attacks have come from the public immediately. Maximum numbers of people have been the voters of BJP in 2018 election, who hated the Communists for their illegal recruitments. It’s not that BJP supporters didn’t support the matter, but the qualified job aspirants, undergoing B.Ed students and also other depts. officials have strongly criticized the govt for its “unconstitutional” movement. According the critics, what was the necessity shouting so much against 10323 teachers’ qualifications or stopping SSAs to regularized if at the end, BJP Govt appoints them who are ‘Not Qualified’.

On the other side, there is no step of the govt to open more numbers of B.Ed colleges in Tripura. Govt perhaps could appoint teachers in contract by checking marks and proper qualification and after they complete B.Ed, they can sit in the TET again, instead of directly appointing them as Asst Teachers. With all these, sharp reaction have been come, as the newly charged BJP  Govt  yet to understand that rather than unemployment, the resentment against “Biased Recruitment” had downed CPI-M’s vessels.

The BJP government in Tripura has urged the Centre for one-time relaxation in academic and other qualifications to facilitate recruitment of 12,222 teachers to overcome their shortage in the state, an official said on Saturday.

Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb met the Prime Minister's Principal Secretary Nripendra Mishra on Friday in New Delhi and took up the state's six demands, including recruitment of teachers.

"Deb told Mishra that if the Human Resource Development Ministry did not relax the academic and other qualifications of teachers as laid down by the NCTE (National Council For Teacher Education) the state would not be able to recruit 12,222 teachers," the official posted in the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) here said.

According to the Right of the Child to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act of 2009 and NCTE guidelines, Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) is mandatory for recruitment of teachers in government schools. 

To appear for the TET, the candidate ought to have 50 per cent marks in certain subjects and a Bachelor's degree or Diploma in Elementary Education or Diploma in Education.

The HRD Ministry had earlier relaxed the minimum qualification norms for teachers, as notified by the NCTE, for Assam and West Bengal.

The teachers' recruitment was a key political issue ahead of the February 18 Assembly elections in Tripura as the Supreme Court had upheld a Tripura High Court verdict to terminate the services of 10,323 government teachers on the ground of discrepancies during the rule of Left Front government.

The official said that the Chief Minister also sought additional central financial support to fulfil promises made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) before the Assembly polls.

Deb also discussed the Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the murder of two Tripura journalists and fraudulent activities of unrecognised chit funds and illegal non-banking financial institutions.

The Chief Minister demanded the setting up of a central agricultural university and AIIMS-like institute in Tripura.