Simply not enough

Statesman News Service

MALDA, ( India) Dec. 5. — While the queue of educated but unemployed in search of white collar jobs is increasing by the day owing to the lack of vacancies, the Malda district primary school council, on the other hand, is facing problems in recruiting primary teachers for nearly 1000 vacant posts, owing to lack of eligible candidates this year.

The reason is the latest recruitment system that stipulates candidates to possess a basic training degree for pursuing teaching profession, but, it seems there is a dearth of registered eligible candidates in the employment exchange, even at the national level, officials informed.

As per the requirement of the district primary school council, it was alleged that both, the district employment exchange and national employment exchange, sent names of only 275 candidates with the basic training degree eligible for the vacant primary teachers post, recently.

Not only that, it was also revealed later, that out of the 275 enlisted candidates, few were already engaged in primary school service earlier, the council officials said.

Serving as a good bait for voters before the assembly election in the state, the authorities, backed by the LF are busy planning alternative methods to continue the process of teachers recruitment in the primary schools, it was reported.

But, the changes that will be adopted by the government in the recruitment of primary school teacher, is raising many questions.

The chairman of the council, Mr A Choudhury informed that recruitment of qualified candidates from the employment exchange can solve the present problem.

Things, however, were different before, when, various methods were employed for primary school teachers recruitment.

Under the previous system, candidates possessing even a minimum degree of basic training were sure to receive calls from the employment exchange.

It was only a few years ago that the government changed the earlier system and decided to appoint only trained candidates for primary schools.

The government even decided to set up private basic training institutes in each district to get more trained teachers for this purpose.

Posted on 6 Dec. at 09.28 am ( IST)