ATET / Assam TET : 26109 teachers to get job letters in Assam on Sunday

Guwahati, May 16: All the 26,109 candidates who have cleared the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) will get their appointment letters on Sunday.

Their names, along with the district where they will be posted, will be uploaded on the websites of TET and Axom Sarba Siksha Abhijan Mission at 6pm today, Assam education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said today. This is the first time such a huge number of teachers are being appointed in the state through an “extremely transparent” process, he added.

The appointment letters will be distributed at a function to be attended by chief minister Tarun Gogoi at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in the Sarusajai Sports Complex here, Sarma said.

The candidates will have to collect the letters personally by showing their original TET pass certificates-cum-marksheets. If someone cannot be present in person, he or she will have to make prior application to the Axom Sarba Siksha Abhijan Mission and their letters will be sent to them by post, he added.


Sarma said there were 28,213 vacant posts of teachers in lower primary and upper primary schools in the state but only 26,109 candidates would be recruited because of non-availability of eligible candidates for appointment in schools in the Sixth Schedule districts of the state.

The government has decided not to appoint candidates from other districts in schools in the Sixth Schedule districts because of protests from some quarters.

Of the 26,109 candidates, 18,257 will be appointed to lower primary schools and 2,120 for maths and science and 5,732 for social science in upper primary schools.

Sarma said orientation camps for these candidates would be held at the district headquarters from June 1 to 5. After the counselling, the district administration will decide who will be posted in which school based on their aptitude. Female candidates will not be posted in remote or interior areas, he added.

Sarma made it clear that the posts were available in schools in rural areas only and, therefore, there would be no transfer to urban areas.

According to him, the move is a step towards strengthening and improving the quality of education in the state in compliance with the Right to Education Act, 2009.

Besides, for every 15 schools in the state, one academic inspector will be appointed by September this year to monitor the functioning of the schools.

These inspectors, who will be selected from the TET-passed candidates, will be provided computers so that they can immediately file their inspection reports, which will be monitored by the state education department.


News : telegraphindia.com (17.5.12)