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Thursday, November 28, 2013

40% in-service candidates among 819 who took Teacher Eligibility Test ANAND OBEROI

GANGTOK, 27 Nov: The Human Resource Development Department held its first Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) here last week with a total of 819 candidates from all the four districts sitting for the same. The results for the test are expected to be announced by December.
Passing the TET is now a mandatory requirement for any teacher (GT or Primary) under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 and Sikkim is one of the last states to have initiated and completed this process. The TET criteria is also mandatory for any teacher wanting to join regular government service.
A total of 832 candidates, including in-service, adhoc and contractual teachers had registered for the test conducted by the HRD, GoS out of which only 819 sat for the test.
“TET is a step towards providing quality education which is why the department is committed in its execution. The tests were held successfully and without hindrances. The response from aspiring candidates as well as ad-hoc candidates has been over whelming since over 40 percent candidates are in-service”, stated the Joint Director, Examinations while speaking to NOW! today.
While informing that the recruitment process and the declaration of vacancies was a policy matter of the state government which would give its report on the same in the coming days, he added that the TET was a mandatory criteria required to be fulfilled just like the requirement of a B.Ed. degree for the post of a Graduate Teacher and a 2-year diploma in elementary education, TTI passed for primary teachers.
He also informed that from the 819 candidates, 549 candidates were Graduate Teachers (GT) and 270 candidates were Primary teachers. Of the 549 graduate teacher candidates, 484 were Humanities teachers and 65 Science teachers.
He also informed that a candidate would be given as many chances to sit and pass the TET till they reach the age limit for joining government service (30 for general and 35 years for the rest).

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