Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday introduced that lakhs of schoolteachers appointed since 2006 by Panchayati Raj establishments (PRIs) and concrete native our bodies (ULBs) will proceed to stay posted at their present positions even after getting the standing of presidency workers upon efficiently clearing competency assessments.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. (PTI)
Kumar made the announcement throughout a operate organised for the distribution of appointment letters to the already working academics who cleared the competency take a look at within the first part.
Within the first competency take a look at, 1,86,818 previous academics handed, whereas 65,716 academics cleared it in the second. Bihar had appointed 3,67,143 academics by PRIs and ULBs in phases since 2006, as state colleges have been wanting workers when the Nitish Kumar authorities took over in November 2005. The appointment of academics was a high precedence of the Janata Dal (United) chief when he took over practically 20 years in the past.
“It was our government that decided to carry out recruitment through PRIs and ULBs and in 2023 we took a policy decision that the time was right to carry out recruitment through the government. The government paid salary earlier also, but the appointment was not through the government. When we started direct recruitments through BPSC, we felt that the old ones should also get their due and they were asked to take simple tests to get the government employee status,” Kumar stated.
The CM was greeted with a loud cheer when he introduced that the previous academics, redesignated as ‘Vishisht teachers’, wouldn’t be shifted. Kumar stated that round 85,000 previous academics nonetheless wanted to take the competency assessments for presidency worker standing. Nevertheless, the seniority concern of previous academics having labored for as much as 18 years remains to be unclear regardless of protests by academics’ our bodies. Extra chief secretary S Siddharth stated the date of becoming a member of of the previous academics can be communicated by a separate notification.
“The government had earlier announced three competency tests, but it was later increased to five. Only two have been held so far. The remaining (teachers) should also take it, as the government was working for their welfare to further improve the educational landscape in the state, which was totally missing before 2005 like the abject governance failure reflected on other fronts. Today, Bihar has achieved near gender parity in education, as the government’s focus from the outset on girls’ education through a slew of measures has delivered positive results,” he added.
The CM’s announcement introduced an enormous aid to previous academics, who have been jittery over the division of schooling’s new switch and posting coverage, which was placed on maintain on Tuesday by schooling minister Sunil Kumar quickly after the Patna excessive courtroom gave aid to the petitioners difficult the coverage.
The schooling minister had introduced that the switch and posting of academics can be finished collectively for all academics solely after the completion of the 5 competency assessments for parity, and that there could possibly be adjustments within the coverage.