Teachers’ recruitment: Left leaders in Bihar meet key GA faces, seek to meet CM over new rules
Hindustan TimesThe leaders of the three Left parties in Bihar, which support to the Nitish Kumar government in the state from outside, met the leaders of the ruling grand alliance on Monday and called for a meeting of a joint delegation with chief minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav to apprise them of the concerns about the new teachers’ recruitment rules in regards to the teachers appointed since 2006. The leaders of the three Left parties in Bihar called for a meeting of a joint delegation with chief minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav to apprise them of the concerns about the new teachers’ recruitment rules in regards to the teachers appointed since 2006 The Bihar cabinet had last month approved the new teachers’ recruitment rules, clearing the decks for the long pending recruitment of teachers in the state. “It is important to collectively make the CM and the deputy CM aware of the growing resentment of teachers and the aspirants with the exam rider,” the Left leaders said after meeting Rashtriya Janata Dal state president Jagdanand Singh, Congress state president Akhilesh Prasad Singh and the Janata Dal-United state president Umesh Kushwaha on Sunday. In the 2022-23 budget, the Bihar government announced to appoint 48,762 primary teachers, 5,886 physical education trainers, 44,193 teachers in secondary schools, 89,734 teachers in higher secondary schools and 7,360 computer teachers.