The Bihar government has directed District Magistrates not to engage school teachers and employees of the state Education department for document verification work of candidates who appeared for the ‘School teacher recruitment (2023) examination’, recently conducted by the BPSC. This was stated by Chief Secretary Amir Subhani in a letter dated September 6 to all DMs in the state. “It has come to notice that employees of the Education department and government school teachers are being engaged in document verification work of candidates who appeared for the ‘school teacher recruitment (2023) examination’. They (education department employees) are also being engaged in the scanning of the OMR sheets by the district administration at different centres. This practice needs to be immediately stopped by the district administration and employees of the education department should not be engaged in these works,” Subhani said in the letter.
He told the DMs that employees of other departments could be engaged in these activities but not teachers and education department officials. A letter objecting to the engagement of teachers and other employees in these activities has also been received from the state Education department. Since the Education department has taken several measures to infuse diligence among its teachers and officials and improve the academic atmosphere in government-run schools in the state, they (teachers) should be kept away from such activities. Besides, it is also not appropriate to engage teachers for these works when the examination conducted by the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) pertains to the recruitment of teachers, the chief secretary added.