Bihar: CTET applicants protest the elimination of the residency requirement for hiring teachers, prompting police use of lethal force
Days after the government removed the domicile criteria in the Central Teachers’ Eligibility Test (CTET) teacher recruitment procedure, riots broke out in Patna, Bihar. The Bihar police used a lathi charge to remove the protesting candidates.
Candidates for teaching positions who were opposing the application of the domicile requirement in hiring were chased away by police officers.
The protesters will be the subject of a lawsuit. They are utilising the streets to cause traffic jams, detain schoolchildren, and destroy property. They must serve time in prison for this. Lathis are being used by the police to control and remove them, according to DSP Kotwali of Law and Order, Nurul Haque.
Bihar’s residence-based reservations
The Bihar government announced on Tuesday that qualified candidates from all states can apply for teaching positions in the state’s government-run schools, reversing its previous policy that limited applicants with Bihar domiciles to those positions only.
“From this point forward, there won’t be any residence-based discrimination in the hiring of teachers for state government-run schools. Any Indian person may apply for a government teaching position; it is not required that they be a resident of Bihar. After a cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, S Siddharth, additional chief secretary (cabinet secretariat), informed media that the state government has made this decision today.
On May 2 of this year, the state cabinet approved the request to hire 1.78 lakh teachers for the state’s primary, middle, and higher grades. The plan to hire 85,477 primary teachers, 1,745 middle school teachers, and 90,804 upper school teachers had been authorised by the state administration. The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) will conduct the hiring. According to a senior state official, the hiring process should be finished by the end of this year.
The new recruiting regulations, which require the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) to conduct exams for all future appointments of school teachers, have been the subject of a number of petitions.
