AGARTALA, December 9 (TIWN): After much speculations state govt especially School Education Department has ultimately framed its new Rules for the method of recruitment to the post of PGT,GT and UGT. On 24/12/2014 Additional Secretary to the Government of Tripura, Education (School) Department P K Chakraborty vide his notification No.F.3(C-13)SE-E(GL)2013 declared the New Recruitment Policy of Post Graduate, Graduate and Under Graduate Teachers. Interestingly this notification of Rules suggests a huge number of vacancies of Teachers in School Education Department. Division Bench of H C comprising of Chief Justice Deepak Kumar Gupta and Justice Swapan Ch Das on its order on 7th May 2014 declared the Recruitment policy of the state govt unconstitutional. Though the state govt challenged the HC as order in Supreme Court , quite silently it also framed the new recruitment policy of teachers and this time state govt has been forced to follow the policies as given in RTE Act.

Interestingly this notification of Rules suggests a huge number of 38070 vacancies of Teachers in School Education Department. The Recruitment Rules four categories of teachers:-

1) Post Graduate Teacher(For XI-XII)

2) Graduate Teacher( For VI-VIII)

3) Graduate Teachers(For IX-X)

4) Under Graduate Teacher(For I-V)

 At the came time the number of vacancies too are mentioned as per category of posts and these are as follows:

1) 18683 plus additional posts of Under Graduate Teachers

2) 9402 plus additional posts of Graduate Teacher( For VI-VIII)

3) 4784 plus additional posts of Graduate Teachers (For IX-X)

4) 5201 plus additional posts of Post Graduate Teachers

 The essential Minimum Qualification too has been am ended as per the Right To Education (RTE) Act. 

      1)For the post of Post Graduate Teachers the essential minimum  qualifications is as follows:-

Master Degree in the relevant subject with Bachelor of Education(B.Ed) or MA.Ed/MSC.Ed/MCom.Ed in relevant subject

    2 )For the Post of Graduate Teacher(For VI-VIII) the minimum essential qualifications are as follows:-

Graduation and 2 year Diploma in Elementary Education or Graduation with 50% marks and 1 year B.Ed

     3) For the post of Graduate Teacher( For IX-X) the minimum essential qualifications are as follows:-

Graduate with B.Ed or Four years integrated BA.B.Ed/BSc.B.Ed/B.Com.B.Ed

     4) For the post of Under Graduate Teacher(I-V) the essential minimum qualifications are

Senior Secondary with at least 50% marks and 2 year Diploma in Elementary Education or Senior Secondary with at least 45% marks and 2year Diploma in Elementary Education.

Apart from this Teacher Eligibility Test(TET) has been made compulsory in the recruitment of Graduate( FOR VI-VIII) and Under Graduate Teacher( For I-V) .

      Now several questions would rise after the notification was issued and only state govt and School Education Department can only clarify :-

1) Is the number of vacancies shown in the Recruitment Rules simply an attempt to befool the youths and the terminated teachers?

2) Has the School Education Department accepted that they would lose the case in SC?

3) Why has the govt not followed such policies just before appointing 10323 teachers whose jobs have been terminated?

4) Has the School Education Department ultimately bent its head down even before the Hearing of the current case in Supreme Court?

5) Has the Govt taken this step as a means of subduing the terminated teachers even if it loses the battle ultimately?

6) Why did the same department not respond to the H C in the same way like it is doing now ( HC instructed the state govt to follow the guidelines of RTE even before the UGT were appointed)

7) If so many vacancies are indeed there ,why was the govt silent over the years?