AGARTALA, June 1 (TIWN): Whereas lack of B.Ed qualified candidates in state has been issued by Tripura Govt. again and again either in HC or in SC as an excuse to appoint teachers without minimum qualification, with another major setback it has been revealed that there are around 37 Special B.Ed qualified teachers who can help to diminish the crisis of the schools but state govt has considered the 'Special B.Ed' degree holder candidates' standards below Graduate B.Ed holders, rejecting their application for the recently announced 14000 posts, for above than senior basic. This is a plea of “Special B.Ed qualified teachers” in Tripura, with a figure of 37 unemployed youths who are holding this degree led the youths to file case in HC. As per the norms a Special B.Ed holder can serve in special school as well as in general schools. In Tripura above 60,000 specially able children are studying in different general schools due to lack of enough number of special schools for them.

However,  many of the Special B.Ed holders are qualified already with master degree with above 50 % marks. But, Education Dept has strictly refused to accept their application for GT and PGT, generating much resentment among the unemployed qualified youths.

On the one side, due to lack of B.Ed Colleges for fresher Tripura’s a major portion of MA, Graduates could not complete B.Ed in time, but when Special B.Ed candidates are already in state under recognized Universities, state govt has sealed them as ‘Not Qualified’.

Talking to one of the deprived youths in this regard, it was known that in such a similar case Delhi Govt lost recently and  Delhi High Court permitted the Special B.Ed holders  to sit in TET as per their qualification, but as nobody filed any case against Tripura Govt, thus it was found reluctant to hear the plea of the unemployed youths amidst huge teacher crisis that bound the agitated candidates to file a case in the High Court against state govt.

Question raised by the deprived youths, “If Govt allowing us till class-VIII to teach, who will take care of the specially able students from class  IX ? Does Tripura Govt think that the students who are specially able, they do not need education after class-VIII?”

Most importantly, as a Special B.Ed holder is capable of doing classes in general as well as special schools, then it’s fully upto the candidate where they will apply. This would have nothing to do with state govt’s chose, but presently the case is pending at High Court. From deprived youths side, Adv Arijit Bhowmik is however much confidence about the case’s winning.

The syllabus for B.Ed and M.Ed courses was revised in India in 2015  to include a mandatory paper on special education this session onward. This paper, introduced by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), will focus on how to teach students with special needs, abolishing the dimension among Special and General schooling system. But when recruiting non-teaching staffs with teaching experience then violation of recruitment module doesn’t bother the govt much but a person having a B.Ed degree, with extra knowledge of special student teaching are not qualified to the lameduck Govt.