Government withdraws recruitment of 480 Graduate Primary Teachers

Key points

• Following a High Court order, the Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) has withdrawn the recruitment of 480 Other Backward Classes (OBC) female Graduate Primary Teachers (GPT) related to the recruitment of 2022-23. The Commissioner of Public Instruction’s order stated that the recruitment orders for which counselling has already been conducted, as well as recruitment orders of candidates that have already reported for duty, have been withdrawn until further court orders.
• In 2022-23, the State government had issued a notification for the recruitment of 15,000 GPT to teach in government schools from classes 6 to 8. It had recruited 13,352 teachers through a competitive examination.
• During this recruitment, OBC candidates were asked to submit caste and income certificates along with their fathers’ income certificates.
• Many OBC female candidates were single while applying for the recruitment and had submitted their father’s caste and income certificates.
• However, after the competitive examination...