Bihar job push: CM announces teachers’ exam with 35% domicile women quota

In keeping with his job-push commitment in poll-bound Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday directed the education department to identify teachers’ vacancies at the earliest to initiate the process for holding exams for recruitment.

- Arun Kumar

The effort was to complete the process before the model code of conduct came into force, said an official familiar with the matter.

“T have directed the education department to identify vacancies immediately so that the Teachers’ Recruitment Examination (TRE-4) could be held for filling them. The government has also made it clear that there would be 35% reservation in recruitment for women, who are natives of Bihar,” the CM said in a post on X to galvanise the education department.

Bihar government has carried out large-scale recruitment in schools, the biggest employer in the state, in the last two years to fulfil its big job-creation promise, as unemployment and large-scale vacancies had hurt it badly in 2020 after the Opposition RJD played it up.

In TRE-1 & 2, 1.70 lakh and 70,000 teachers were appointed respectively, while in TRE-3 against 87,774 vacancies, only 66,603 could be filled, while the rest positions remained vacant and would be carried forward in TRE-4.