WBTET : 46000 teachers to be recruited

WBTET : 46000 teachers to be recruited

Calcutta, June 8: Mamata Banerjee today announced that 46,000 teachers would be recruited to fill up vacancies in Bengal’s 50,000-odd state-aided primary schools.

“The cabinet has approved a decision to recruit 46,000 primary teachers,” the chief minister told reporters at Writers’.

Mamata said 10 per cent of the 46,000 posts would be reserved for degree holders of the primary teachers’ training institutes (PTTI) and para teachers.

Sources in the government said the primary teachers would be recruited within a year. A decision will be taken in the next cabinet meeting on the modalities of absorbing the teachers of sishu siksha kendras and Madhyamik siksha kendras, the sources said.

The teaching community welcomed today’s decision and said the move would ensure that the teacher-student ratio in schools was 1:40.

“There were exactly 46,000 vacancies in the 50,000-odd state-aided primary schools. There are nearly 1.75 lakh teaching posts in these schools,” a source in the school education department said.

Samar Chakraborty, the general secretary of the CPM-controlled All-Bengal Primary Teachers’ Association, said: “One cannot deny that we need more teachers to offer quality education in the primary schools. Enrolment in these schools has increased considerably. The previous government had succeeded in checking dropouts at the primary level. Today’s decision will provide job opportunities to many educated youths.”


News Source : http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110609/jsp/bengal/story_14090153.jsp
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News Analysis : 
In Next 1-2 years Bumper Recruitment will be seen in Education Sector.
All over India under RTE Act, You can see huge number of vacancies are announced and lakhs of teachers posts are vacant.
RTE (Right To Education ) is announced in Eleventh Five Year Plan ( 2007 - 2012 ) and B Ed degree holders are waived to become Primary Teacher upto 1st Jan 2012. And approx 20 Lakhs posts are sanctioned for RTE implementation till 1st Jan  2012.
However many states not started to fill posts of teachers, And may seek relaxation for B Ed candidates.

Big recruitment can be seen in - UP (Approx 2.5 Lakhs posts are vacant ), Bihar ( Recently announce 1.7 Lakh Teachers Recruitment ), Rajasthan ( Approx 1 Lakh Teachers, Recently stay on recruitment for approx 42000 teachers comes in news, Recently Assam Govt. appointed 26000 teachers under RTE and many new jobs are ready, Gujarat, Punjab , Haryana , Uttrakhand, Jharkhand , Orissa , Tamilnadu , Andhra Pradesh etc. 
Therefore approx 8-10 Lakh jobs of teachers can be filled in next 1-2 years.