Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar will meet the leaders of the Grand Alliance (GA) on Saturday to debate the problems of protesting lecturers who’ve been demanding authorities worker standing for contractual lecturers with none examination rider and requisite modifications within the Bihar State College Academics (appointment, switch, disciplinary motion and repair situation) Guidelines, 2023, beneath which the federal government plans to hold out future appointments beneath a brand new cadre.
The assembly is critical as it should happen consistent with the promise made by parliamentary affairs minister Vijay Kunar Choudhary. The minister had final month promised the chief minister will meet the agitating lecturers, talk about and fulfil the justified calls for of contractual lecturers.
“The assembly will happen on August 5. I’ve delivered on my promise. I’ll take heed to the viewpoints of all GA leaders. Deputy chief minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, schooling minister Chandrashekhar, and the leaders of the Congress and left events, apart from officers from the schooling division, shall be current. The dialogue will attempt to resolve the issues, as these are our lecturers,” stated Nitish Kumar.
The lecturers’ protest is in opposition to the brand new recruitment guidelines beneath which all future appointments of faculty lecturers shall be carried out by the Bihar Public Service Fee (BPSC) by way of an examination.
The brand new recruitment guidelines have already witnessed a number of modifications, together with the elimination of the domicile coverage, which was later described as “legally untenable”.
Beneath the brand new guidelines, the BPSC has already moved forward with its train for conducting examinations scheduled from August 24-27 to recruit 1.70 -lakh lecturers.
The federal government needs to finish the train by the top of the 12 months, as secondary faculties have been working with out satisfactory power regardless of their upgradation to greater secondary stage for almost a decade.
Nonetheless, the variety of candidates for greater secondary faculties acquired by the BPSC remains to be decrease than the variety of seats out there and the final date for submission has ended. The working lecturers largely stayed away from making use of beneath the brand new guidelines.
Bihar secondary lecturers’ affiliation president Shatrughan Prasad Singh stated the chief minister speaking to GA leaders on lecturers’ real points was a optimistic indication.
“We hope the assembly will set the tone for settlement with lecturers’ our bodies to interrupt the deadlock. The calls for of the lecturers have gotten the backing of GA constituents additionally,” he added.
