Port Blair, Nov 16: Taking concern over the unemployed teachers of these islands, the PCC President Kuldeep Rai Sharma has written a letter to the Prime Minister of India and requested him to issue necessary directions to the concerned Ministry/Department to amend the rules to reserve 100 per cent of the posts of teachers for the local candidates keeping in consideration of the remote place and huge percentage of unemployed youths of the isles.
In his letter Kuldeep has written that the Andaman & Nicobar Administration has advertised the recruitment of more than 400 teachers’ posts in its Education Department on all India basis under the mandatory CTET format. A huge number of mainland India candidates who have a better chance of getting these jobs have already applied for the posts.
Kuldeep has earnestly requested the Prime Minister to kindly note that devoid of suitable coaching facilities in these remote and backward islands, the local candidates of A&N Islands, including our tribal brethren, awfully lack a level playing field viz their mainland counterpart. There is a very small number of CTET qualified candidates in these islands and even they don’t stand a chance to compete with the better equipped mainlanders. It’s apprehended that almost all the advertised posts of teachers would be grabbed by the mainland candidates leaving the local economically, socially and educationally disadvantaged candidates high and dry to suffer a bleak future.
“As you are aware, Sir, the job opportunities in the government and private sectors are very limited in remote A&N Islands. The mainland candidates depriving the poor local counterparts of a job opportunity would make the lives of the educated unemployed sons and daughters of the soil even more arduous” Kuldeep has submitted in his letter.
Kuldeep has, thus, humbly requested the Prime Minister, on behalf of the people of A&N Islands, to kindly issue the necessary direction to the concerned Ministry/Department to amend the rules to reserve at least 100 per cent of the posts of teachers for the local candidates keeping in consideration of the remote place and huge percentage of unemployed youths of the isles.
Kuldeep has also mentioned that a number of State Governments have made such a provision to safeguard the interest of their own candidates in case of recruitment and recorded his hope that . the prayer of the cut-off Islanders would receive a sympathetic consideration at his end.
