Gujarat govt to recruit 2600 Vidhya Sahayaks; will also conduct TET

Gandhinagar: State Education Minister Jitu Vaghani declared that the state government will undertake recruitment of 2600 posts of Vidhya Sahayak with immediate effect after the decision of the district transfers.

Total 77,953 applications for district transfers of the teachers serving at primary schools are pending in the state at present. This issue is in the last phase of hearing in the court. The process of district transfers will be completed after the verdict, he states. The education department has decided to undertake recruitments with immediate effect on 2600 posts out of 5360 vacant posts after the decision of district transfers. The education department will start the process for TET exams by the end of September 2022.

The TET-1 exam was lastly conducted in 2018 and TET-2 in 2017. Total 9488 candidates were appointed in the recruitment. The number of candidates is likely to increase as the TET exam has not been conducted for the last 4 to 5 years, states a note.

The HMAT exam, for recruitment of principals in the granted secondary and higher secondary schools was conducted lastly on 8th October 2017 and 8906 teachers had appeared in it, states Jitu Vaghani. Total 5928 teachers were qualified, out of which 1287 principals were recruited. Total 7815 teachers have applied for this exam this year. The state examination board has decided to give conditional opportunity to appear for the exam to all the candidates who have applied for the HMAT recruitment exam. DeshGujarat