Bihar: CTET Aspirants Protest Against End Of Domicile Rule In Teaching Recruitment, Police Resort To Lathi-Charge

Police personnel chased away protesting teacher aspirants who are demanding implementation of domicile policy in recruitment.

"A case will be registered against the protestors. They are taking to the roads causing traffic jams, stopping school students and causing damage to the property. They will have to go to jail for this. The police are removing them using lathis to control them,"?DSP Kotwali, Law and Order, Nurul Haque said.?

Domicile-based reservation in Bihar

The Bihar government on Tuesday announced that eligible candidates from all states can apply for teaching jobs in the state's government-run schools, reversing its previous rule?which mandated that applicants with the domicile of Bihar could only apply for teaching jobs in the government-run schools of the state.

“Now, there will be no domicile-based reservation for recruitment of teachers in state government-run schools. Any Indian citizen can apply for government teacher job and it is not binding that he or she should have a Bihar domicile. This decision was taken by the state cabinet today,” S Siddharth, additional chief secretary (cabinet secretariat), told reporters after a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

The state cabinet on May 2 this year had cleared the proposal to recruit 1.78 lakh teachers for primary, middle, and upper classes in the state. The state government had approved the proposal to recruit 85,477 primary teachers, 1,745 middle and 90,804 for upper classes. The recruitment will be done by the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC). The recruitment process is expected to be completed by the end of this year, said a senior official of the state government.

A?number of petitions have been filed against the new recruitment rules under which all future appointments of school teachers will be carried out by the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) through an examination.