As assured by the state government over issuing of appointment letters for 3,108 Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) qualified candidates, again on Monday the Directorate of Elementary Education issued offer letters and posting for 248 graduate teachers (GT) for class-VI to VIII on a fixed monthly pay.

As assured by the state government over issuing of appointment letters for 3,108 Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) qualified candidates, again on Monday the Directorate of Elementary Education issued offer letters and posting for 248 graduate teachers (GT) for class-VI to VIII on a fixed monthly pay.

Earlier, on November 5th the Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath addressing a press conference here at Civil Secretariat said that under the School Education department the posting of 248 GT, 196 UGT, LDC-4 and group-D posts for 5 candidates has been released.

He said that till date altogether 1686 teachers were appointed in Elementary Education including new appointments of 453 teachers and in Secondary Education, altogether 1471 graduate teachers (GT) and 347 post graduate teachers (PGT).

Moreover, the appointment of 110 PGT, 230 GT and 200 posts of special educators are in pipeline, said Nath and added that all 3,108 TET qualified candidates will get the offer of appointment in the present month of November.

Meanwhile, as per the posting of 248 Graduate Teachers (GT), the department has asked them to report for their duty at the offices of the respective District Education Officers(DEOs) pertaining to concerned school on December 1st and 2nd and should submit their joining report and concerned DEOs to redirect them to their place of posting as per the order.

While, again on Monday morning qualified candidates of Selection Test for Graduate Teachers (STGT) under Teachers’ Recruitment Board, Tripura (TRBT) gheraoed the residence of Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath in Agartala demanding their early recruitment. About 450 to 500 Scheduled Tribe (ST) qualified STGT candidates gathered in front the residence of the Education Minister in Krishnanagar area and alleged that after their successful qualifying process in 2021, till date they are not appointing in the services despite a large number of backlog. They urged the Education Minister to release their appointment letters at the earliest to protect their lives.