Hyderabad: After two years of waiting, government-run schools are all set to get new teachers. From Monday onwards, the candidates selected in the Teacher Recruitment Test (TRT) will start reporting to the allotted schools. Tthe postings are limited to only 2,058 school assistant (SA) candidates, as the remaining candidates i.e. physical education teachers (PET) and secondary grade teachers (SGT) are stuck amid issues like court cases.
SAs are slotted in grade 1 and SGTs in grade 2. SAs can take only primary classes, as per the information provided by the school education department officials.
Of the total 8,792 posts, 5,415 recuitments as SGTs were withheld because of a court case. Additionally, the reorganisation of districts has caused confusion in the allotment of posts, and some candidates have taken that to the court, stressing on the change in the number of candidates allotted to the district which has created a disturbance in the category-wise list too, sources revealed.
Even the SA posts, appointments to the Hindi medium are withheld because of an issue over the qualification criteria. Some candidates were found to be qualified as Hindi pundits from unrecognised universities. Previously, the Mahbubnagar district court issued had orders to consider any equivalent qualification in addition to the score secured in the TRT.
There are court cases related to the answer key in the recruitment of PETs as well, although the court had previously ordered to recruit all candidates except for the petitioners. However, posts have been withheld.
"The TRT is complete only after all 8,792 posts are filled. The ongoing delay is intentional. Despite receiving clearances, PET posts have been withheld. This issue needs to be settled as soon as possible, and all positions should be awarded to the deserving candidates," state president for the TRT Union K. Lakshman said.
Telangana Public Service Commission officials said as of now they are filling up the posts that have received clearance and will start recruiting to the rest of the posts soon.
