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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

BETET-appointment process will start from the first week of August

BETET-(PATNA) The candidates who passed the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) will soon get jobs in the primary schools. Education department officials said the appointment process will start from the first week of August.

About 1.25 lakh aspirants have passed the TET of which result was published on May 14, said education department joint secretary and spokesman R S Singh. Of them 37,335 aspirants were female. Singh said the appointment schedule has been prepared and being sent to all the district education officials. All of them will get appointment letters by the end of this year, he added. The candidates who passed TET are required to submit their applications from August 8 to September 8

The department is also preparing to release schedule for appointment of secondary schools and it is expected that about 20,000 teachers will be appointed.

Drawing the attention of the centre, the state education department has pleaded for opening of at least 4,000 high schools in Bihar in order to open one high school in each panchayat. This demand was put before ministry of human resources development under secretary Vrinda Swaroop in course of her meeting with education department principal secretary Amrjit Sinha.

She was told that Bihar has only 3,000 high schools of which 1,000 were upgraded to plus 2 but still teachers have not been appointed there. Under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, the centre has provided fund for the construction of extra classrooms in the existing schools. Bihar officials pointed out that fund had not been released for the purpose.

News Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Bihar-to-appoint-1-25-lakh-primary-teachers/articleshow/14387397.cms