Age relief gives hope

Hundreds of youth wrote the Dietcet -2015 as the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) has generated hope among the youth and students that it will soon issue notification for 25,000 jobs in first phase.

The possible 10- year age relaxation given for government jobs by the state government encouraged even middle-aged persons to write the exam with the hope of landing a teacher job.

There is great demand for the D.Ed courses unlike the past: all posts of secondary grade teachers have been filled up D.Ed graduates on the orders of the Supreme Court.

Candidates who completed their B.Ed course are eligible for the post of the school assistant. However, school assistants are to be selected by the District Selection Committees.   

However, vacancies will be few as all most 70 percent of the posts would be filled up through promotions with the secondary grade teachers to take classes from 1 to 5 in government primary schools.

In this backdrop, thousands of youth and middle aged candidates took the Dietcet conducted across the state August 9. As many as 7,195 candidates out of 7,539 applied took the test in the district.

Alke Ashok of Adilabad, who has completed B.Ed and is waiting for the or DSC notification, said those who could not write the Dietcet in the past attended the examination this time due to the age limit restrictions.

He said it was very difficult to get School Assistant jobs through the DSC due to few posts given notified, as against the thousands of candidates who have completed their B.Ed. It appears the education department is showing the need for fewer teachers after rationalizing the teachers’ posts.