The Unemployed B.Ed Teachers’ Front, Punjab, today asked the state government not to declare the results of teacher eligibility test (TET) in the larger interests of the unemployed teachers.
The government has also been asked to defer its decision on the TET condition for the recruitment of teachers at least for two years, as it has decided to implement the Right to Education Act fully in 2013 in the state.
Stating this, spokesman of the Front Harjit Jeeda said that after the TET was conducted in the state on July 3, there was great disappointment among the unemployed teachers, including music and art and craft teachers, as they had to answer the questions from science and mathematics subjects in the test.
Jeeda also asked the government not to implement the TET condition on the unemployed teachers at the time of recruitment in near future. He said the TET was not a parameter to judge the ability of unemployed teachers. He said in case five per cent unemployed teachers cleared the test then what would be the fate of the remaining teachers.
Jeeda announced that they were now planning to launch a mass movement to compel the government to scrap the TET. He said they would now go door to door and convince unemployed teachers about their agitation plan. After that, district-level and state-level conferences would be held.
Regarding their recent agitation against the TET, he said the Front had not given any call for the boycott of the test, which is why the majority of unemployed teachers appeared in it. But later, the same unemployed teachers were saying that the Front’s stand with regard to scrapping of the TET was right, he added.
He said their agitation would continue even during and after the ensuing Assembly elections if the government did not scrap the TET.
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