More than 50 lakh appied for 72,000 vacant teachers posts

More than 50 lakh appied for 72,000 vacant teachers posts for appointment as basic education teachers in the state. Still a day is left for application and it is believed that the number will go upto 53 to 55 Lakh. Today is the last date for filling the application. These application has been through Online registration. But the fact is that a single candidate is applying for 35 to 40 different districts.

In the last three days after Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the result of Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET), a huge number of application has come up. More than  20 lakh challans were generated between December 27 and 29.

According to the sources applications were invited for only 72000 vacant posts, but there are 1.60 lakh posts lying vacant in primary schools while in junior high schools the number of vacant posts extends up to 2,57,939. Appointment of 72,825 teachers in primary schools will be done by March 31, 2013.

According to the officials, applicants are preffering Sitapur, Lakhimpur, Bahraich, Kushinagar, Balrampur, Gonda, Hardoi and Maharajganj etc where there is a large number of vacant seats.

On December 7, the state basic education department published an advertisement inviting online applications for recruitment of teachers in primary schools. The recruitment process began after the state government led by chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on December 4 approved the amendment in the UP Basic Education (Teachers) Service Rules, 1981 after which a provision for temporary appointment was done in primary schools. Incidentally, the high court has also set December 7 as deadline for publishing the advertisement.

Only BEd (Bachelor of Education) degree holders who have qualified Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) are eligible for the primary teacher's position. In the state, there are only 3 lakh BEd degree holder who have TET qualified.

For the first time, the state government on November 2011 had published an advertisement for recruitment of teachers in primary schools but the process was cancelled after gross anomalies in TET came into light. In fact, name of the then secondary education director Sanjay Mohan surfaced in duping the candidates by promising them job. The matter was put on hold. With change of guard in UP, it was first decided to cancel the TET 2011 and conduct a fresh test. After protests from the TET qualified candidates, the state government declared TET as a qualifying exam for recruitments in primary schools.