Bihar 94000 Teacher Recruitment 2020: The new schedule for the recruitment of primary teachers by the Department of Education, Government of Bihar was released following the instruction given by the Patna High Court.

 According to the new recruitment program released by the department, applications will be made for Bihar Primary Teacher posts today i.e. from June 15, 2020.

At the same time, after the High Court’s decision, only those candidates who have completed the 18-month D.L.Ed course from Open, passed the State Eligibility Test (TET) or Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) will be able to apply.

These are the schedule released by Bihar Education Department:

As per the schedule released by the Bihar Education Department, the last date for submission of applications has been set as 14 July 2020. After the application process, the merit list preparation will be done by the department till July 18, while the publication of merit list will be released on July 23, 2020 after approval by the planning committee. Any objections regarding merit list can be lodged from July 24 to August 7. The Education Department will finalize the merit list by August 12, after resolving the objections of the candidates. However, after the other prescribed procedures, scrutiny and appointment of certificates of selected candidates will be given on 31 August 2020.

Why was the recruitment process stopped?

 In August 2019, applications were invited for the recruitment of 94000 primary teachers in the government schools of the state by the Education Department of the Government of Bihar. In the midst of the application process, the qualification of the candidates who had completed the 18 month DLED course was challenged in the Patna High Court. After which the Bihar government had declared invalid on the basis of information received by the Central Government regarding the recognition of this course from NCTE. The High Court had considered the NCTE’s rules to be false and qualified the candidates who had been de-qualified.

71 thousand schools to be appointed:

Now, in a total of more than 90 thousand recruitment’s taken by the Education Department of the Government of Bihar, 71 thousand elementary schools will be reinstated.

This process is planned to be completed within the next three months. According to the estimation of the department, there will be about 5 thousand candidates who have passed TET with D.Ed in 2.17 lakh pass from NIOS, who can join this process.

Amidst the lockdown where there is a crisis on everyone’s job, in such a situation, the youth of the state are very happy with the recruitment of teachers from the government.

8244 posts of teachers in Darbhanga are vacant:

If we talk about vacant posts at present, then 8244 posts of maximum teachers are vacant in Darbhanga. After this, another number comes from Muzaffarpur, where a total of 4806 posts of teachers are vacant. Apart from this, 2502 vacancies in Gaya, 2272 in Patna and 2012 in Bhagalpur are vacant. On the other hand, only 337 posts are vacant in Shivhar.