Times
of India: Allahabad: Wednesday, August 27, 2014.
Saumya
cleared Uttar Pradesh Teachers Eligibility Test (UPTET) in 2011 while she was
still pursuing BEd, which is the mandatory qualifying examination. She passed
BEd a year before the declaration of TET results in 2013. Three years on, the
candidate is still running from pillar to post to know whether she is eligible
to apply for teaching in government or aided schools or not.
She
is among thousands of candidates, who are facing this dilemma due to failure on
the part of State Council of Research Education and Training (SCERT) and Uttar
Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad to communicate the status of such
candidates. It may be recalled that TET was conducted to fill 72,000 vacancies
of teachers in government schools across the state.
The
Board, which conducted the examination in 2011, had refused to recognise the
aspirants as eligible to apply for teacher in the absence of any direction from
state government while SCRET, which provides guidance, blame onboard, for
messing up the situation.
The
candidate got some respite when in July, 2014, National Council for Teacher
Education (northern region committee) has in reply to an information sought
under RTI, has said that all such students are eligible for 2011 examination.
S
V S Chaudhary, regional director, NCTE (northern regional committee), said:
"We inform you that if such candidates have pursued BEd session 2011-12 as
per norms, they are eligible for UP TETE 2011 examination."
However,
the candidates who were aspiring to get a job of teachers, said that when they
contacted UP Board, the officials there denied that they have received any such
order, regarding students who had cleared BEd session in 2012.
An
official said, "We sympathise with the students but till now we have not
received any clarification from any the authorities regarding inclusion of such
students."