Teacher aspirants seek preference to local candidates
Source: Chronicle News Service
Jiribam, August 30 2021:
All Jiribam Graduate Teacher Appearing Candidates organised a sit-in protest in front of DC Jiribam office on Monday demanding priority to well-trained and qualified candidates from Jiribam
district for the posts to be assigned in the district.Interacting with media persons on the sidelines, co-convener of the association Ajaina Panmei said that they are placing the demand keeping in view of past experience, in which teachers from other parts of the state posted in Jiribam district remain chronically absent from their place of posting by keeping a local person as their substitute.
It severely hampers the education sector in the district.
At the same time, it is the local people who are well aware of the problems faced in the district and as such giving preference to local candidates will help solve many such issues, Panmei said.
On the other hand, teachers from other parts of the state will also face language problem if they are posted in Barak circle.
The state government, for decades, has been paying scant attention to the district and it makes the district backward socially, politically and economically, Panmei added.