ATET : Assam govt appoints 26000 school teachers

Guwahati, May 20 (IBNS) : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi handed over the appointment letters to the officially appointed 26000 teaching candidates, who passed the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET), which was conducted by the state education department.

Assam government appointed the school teachers during a function held at Sarusajai stadium in Guwahati on Sunday,

“The state government was committed to providing jobs to the eligible persons and on its policy the government had recruited 26,100 eligible youths for the teachers post,” Gogoi said.

Among the 26,100 appointed teachers, 18,297 posts are for primary schools, 2,120 posts for upper primary (science) and 5,732 posts for upper primary (social science).

He said, “For need to the better infrastructure in the education sector in the state, government had made such kind of policies.”

Assam Education and Health Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarmah, Parliamentary Secretary of Education Department Rekibuddin Ahmed, former Assam Education Minister Gautam Bora and other officials of the state education department were also present at the occasion.

However, the Assam Tribal Sangha alleged that, there had been largescale conversion in the TET lists prepared for appointment of the teachers in lower primary and upper primary schools.

They claimed that the scheduled tribes (STs) category post was converted to general category.

News info : indiablooms.com (20.5.12)