HYDERABAD: Recruitment of teachers will be taken up by the Telangana State Public Service Commission instead of by the District Selection Committees in the state from this year.
The change is likely to delay the recruitment process of teachers further. The unemployed BEd candidates, who have been eagerly waiting for recruitment, have to wait for some more time. The recruitment process will be completed in next the three or four months.
The state government issued orders that hereafter the TSPSC would conduct the examination for teacher recruitment and there would be no DSC examination in the state.
According to sources in the education department, the change is in accordance with the recent cabinet’s decision that all the examinations for recruitment to corporations, public sector units, local bodies, etc under their administrative control shall be conducted by the TSPSC.
Accordingly, the state also decided to fill up the direct recruitment vacancies of all the teacher posts under the control of the director of school education which are now being done through District Selection Committees (DSCs) at the district level, i.e. School Assistants, Language Pandits, Secondary Grade Teachers, Physical Education Teachers through the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC).
Orders to this effect were issued here on Wednesday.
Sources said the change of resonsibility from DSC to TSPSC will have better uniformity, consistency and proper selection procedures.
Education minister K Srihari told Express that the GO issued on Wednesday was in accordance with the state cabinet’s decision. He claimed that TSPSC-conducted examinations were more transparent.
According to sources, the education department will first take a decision on the previous DSC qualified candidates. Later, it will notify the vacant teacher posts.
“It will take at least 15 days to one month to notify the district vacant teacher posts,” the sources said. Later, they will send a formal request to the TSPSC to conduct the examination and announce the results.
Though TSPSC conducts the examinations, the teacher recruitment will be made with district as a unit.
Written test & demo class; no interview
The recruitment of teachers will be made based on a written test and there will be no interview. However, the government is contemplating conducting a demo class for selecting the candidates. “TSPSC proposes to conduct a demo type exam for those qualified in the written examination,” sources said.
NEET from next year
Speaking to Express, education minister Kadiyam Srihari hinted that state students too may have to take NEET from next year for admissions to medical colleges. For this year, the centre may issue an ordinance exempting the states to take NEET this year. Inter curriculum would be changed next year.