As assured by the state government, the Education Minister Ratan LalNath in the first day of assembly session once again assured the House that all Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) qualified candidates will be appointed. Replying to the private members resolution moved by the opposition MLA Sudhan Das over recruitment process educated unemployed youths of the state in the second session of the House on Friday, Nath giving statistic of the employment opportunities created by the present state government said that a special meeting under the leadership of Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha along with deputy chief minister and Finance minister Jishnu Dev Varma, Chief Secretary and Finance secretary held on Thursday said that government has taken a major decision and will recruit all TET qualified candidates at a time.

Nath said at present, the state has 3,108 candidates who have qualified the TET and are eligible for appointment as teachers for class one to eight and added that all qualified TET candidates will be given their appointment letters as teachers under the Education department within a short period. He also there are process going on to appoint around 600graduate and post-graduate teachers.

While giving statistics of government jobs given during the past four and half years rule of BJP-IPFT government, Nath said that altogether23,031 jobs including regular, contractual and jobs throughout sourcing has been given to the youths of the state. He said that by December, 2022 next the number will be about 38,000 as the government has taken massive initiative to recruit more candidates in various departments and to fill up vacant posts. He also said that there are 6,382 jobs in the pipeline and soon the government will release appointment letters for these numbers of posts.