This story is from August 27, 2014

UPTET qualified candidates still wait Board recognition

Saumya cleared Uttar Pradesh Teachers Eligibility Test (UPTET) in 2011 while she was still pursuing BEd, which is the mandatory qualifying examination. She passed BEd a year before the declaration of TET results in 2013. Three years on, the candidate is still running from pillar to post to know whether she is eligible to apply for teaching in government or aided schools or not.
UPTET qualified candidates still wait Board recognition
Saumya cleared Uttar Pradesh Teachers Eligibility Test (UPTET) in 2011 while she was still pursuing BEd, which is the mandatory qualifying examination. She passed BEd a year before the declaration of TET results in 2013. Three years on, the candidate is still running from pillar to post to know whether she is eligible to apply for teaching in government or aided schools or not.

She is among thousands of candidates, who are facing this dilemma due to failure on the part of State Council of Research Education and Training (SCERT) and Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad to communicate the status of such candidates. It may be recalled that TET was conducted to fill 72,000 vacancies of teachers in government schools across the state.
The Board, which conducted the examination in 2011, had refused to recognise the aspirants as eligible to apply for teacher in the absence of any direction from state government while SCRET, which provides guidance, blame onboard, for messing up the situation.
The candidate got some respite when in July, 2014, National Council for Teacher Education (northern region committee) has in reply to an information sought under RTI, has said that all such students are eligible for 2011 examination.
S V S Chaudhary, regional director, NCTE (northern regional committee), said: "We inform you that if such candidates have pursued BEd session 2011-12 as per norms, they are eligible for UP TETE 2011 examination."
However, the candidates who were aspiring to get a job of teachers, said that when they contacted UP Board, the officials there denied that they have received any such order, regarding students who had cleared BEd session in 2012.
An official said, "We sympathise with the students but till now we have not received any clarification from any the authorities regarding inclusion of such students."
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