WBTET : SSC candidates could lose out on teaching posts

WBTET : SSC candidates could lose out on teaching posts

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In a setback for aspiring teachers who took the School Service Commission (SSC) on July 29, 2012, a significant number of teaching posts up for grabs via the exam could be abolished if the commission fails to the process of recruitment by March 2013.

The exam had been conducted to fill up 55,000 vacant posts of assistant teachers in state-aided schools and as many as 39,500 of these could now turn null and void, should the commission fail to meet the March deadline for recruitment. However, top commission officials said meeting the March deadline was nigh impossible.

Over 7,26,000 took the SSC last year, of which 175000 qualified for the preliminary Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) and is currently awaiting the result of the main part of the exam.
Shortly after the Trinamool government agreed to implement the Right To Education Act, 2009 across the state-run and state-aided schools, the central government sanctioned 39,500 vacant teaching positions in government-aided schools. It was further understood that while the Centre would pay the salary of these fresh lot of teachers till 2017, the state government would have to take the process forward thereafter.

The extra teaching posts had been sanctioned in a way as to ensure compliance to the 40:1 student-teacher ratio in state and state-aided schools. However, the teaching posts had to be filled by March 31, 2013, failing which the periodicity of having recruits for these posts would give out.

The commission had hoped to have the process of evaluating answer scripts done by February and the results out by mid-March. However, even after publication of results, the examinees would have to take the Viva and those clearing it, would be called for counseling, thereby delaying the process of recruitment.

The process has only got more complicated with the High Court on February 7 directing the state government to fill-up all vacancies with B.Ed candidates and should any post still remain vacant, they could be opened up for non-trained teachers.


News Source : Hindustan Times Kolkata, February 09, 2013
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It looks if Trained teachers (B. Ed,Diploma in Teaching etc. )  are NOT AVAILABLE then posts can be filled through Non-Trained teachers.

And from news it appears teachers post to be filled by 31st March 2013.
I heard recently that RTE implementation for recruitment of teacher is extended by 31st March 2014.

Whatever be the date, another deadline for recruitment is nearby and stay may causes problem for timely implementation of ACT.

If deadline was 31st March 2013 then it is already passed and government may have lot of pressure for recruitment of QUALIFIDE TEACHERS.

WBTET : Court stay on teacher selection test

WBTET : Court stay on teacher selection test

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KOLKATA: Candidates who have passed the Teacher Eligibility Test (Tet) - the preliminary examination for teacher recruitment in state-run and -aided secondary and higher secondary schools - will have to wait some more time to take their subject papers.

On Wednesday, the high court imposed an interim stay on the Tet selection procedure till March 31 after some unsuccessful candidates lodged a petition complaining that some Tet questions were out of syllabus.



Justice Debasish Kar Gupta passed the order after he found, prima facie, merit in the petition filed by Kamruddin and 39 others. They also pointed to anomalies in model answers uploaded by the School Service Commission (SSC), which is responsible for conducting the test for teacher recruitment in the state-run schools have to wait for some more time before they take the examination for the subject papers. Calcutta high court on Wednesday imposed an interim stay on the Tet selection procedure till March 31.

Last year was the first time that the teachers' recruitment test was divided into two sections - the preliminary Tet and the main subject papers. Candidates are required to pass Tet for the subject papers to be evaluated, said sources.

The government conducted the teachers' recruitment test to fill up the 53,000 vacant teaching posts in state-sponsored schools.

Acting on the petition, Justice Kar Gupta directed the commission to take an expert opinion on the complaint and submit a report to the court by March 14. The next hearing has been fixed on March 29.

SSC conducted Tet based on three subjects - English, Bengali and child development - on July 29, 2012. The results were published on December 2 along with model answers.

The 40 unsuccessful teachers had filed the petition at the high court two weeks ago.

The petitioners had pointed to what appeared to be errors in the answers provided to the objective questions. They also complained that all four options to some of the questions were wrong.

The state government and the School Service Commission, however, have decided to lodge an appeal in the division bench.

The commission, however, isn't willing tio wait any more. They have decided to move the division bench after consulting the state government.

"The state government and the commission will prefer to appeal this matter. We hope that it would be sorted out," said SSC president Chittaranjan Mandal.


News Source : articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com (TNN Feb 14, 2013, 04.11AM IST)
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Analysis -
A similar situation happens in UP, Stay on Teachers Recruitment Happens.

RTE implementation is tough as post is expected to fill by 31st March 2014.

WBTET : HC stays selection of teachers

WBTET : HC stays selection of teachers

SSC Petition alleges TET answers evaluated wrongly

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The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday stayed the selection process to recruit teachers in the secondary and higher secondary schools by the School Service Commission (SSC) till March 21. The examination was held on July 29 last year to recruit teachers in secondary and higher secondary schools for filling up around 55,000 posts.

M D Kamruzzaman and 40 other candidates, who appeared in the SSC examination, filed a writ petition challenging the examination process. They alleged in the petition that the answer script of the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) had been evaluated according to the wrong answers. The candidates who wrote the right answers on the basis of text books did not secure any marks. So the selection process should be stopped.

Hearing the allegation, Justice Debasish Kargupta referred the dispute to the principal of David Hare BEd College to look into the matter. The principal will verify the claim made by the candidates and file a report within three weeks.

The petition explained that the candidates had appeared for two written tests — one TET and another test on main subjects. On securing 60 per cent marks in the TET, their answer scripts of main subjects would be examined by the SSC. But the two written tests were taken on the same day. After publication of TET result, answer script of main subjects would be evaluated.

On December 1 last, the SSC published the result of TET and also disclosed the model answers of the questions of the TET on its website. The petitioners noticed that some answers in the model answers were different according to popular text books and the answer scripts were evaluated on the basis of the these model answers.

Advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharjee, counsel of the petitioner argued that the candidates who wrote the right answers according to the text book, got zero and the candidates who wrote the wrong answers on the basis of the model answers secured got marks. As a result, he petitioner did not secure the requisite 60 per cent to qualify the TET, the petition alleged.

Though the results of the TET were published, the results of the main subjects are yet to some out. Justice Kargupta said that the result of the main subjects can not be published now for the stay order. The case will come up for hearing on March 21.

News Source : indianexpress.com (14.2.2013)

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This situation happens almost all over India. So many Court case filed for almost each and every state like Haryana , Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, Uttrakhand, UP etc.

How can RTE post filled by 31st March 2014.