There are large number of vacancies of teachers at primary and middle school level in the State. In 2000, the State Government floated the Rehbar-e-Taleem scheme with the essential objective of bringing educational facilities to the remotest village in the state. After going through early hiccups, the ReT began to gain speed and through this scheme many unemployed youth were provided means of subsistence. As they were mostly desired to serve their own localities, the incumbents began to be considered as a source of social unit equipped to contribute to the social awareness. The term of the teachers employed on ReT pattern would have expired on August 4, 2012. But as there was intervention by the court of law in their case, the Government has now prepared a memorandum extending the employment of teachers on ReT pattern for two more years beyond August 2012. This is a welcome step as it ensures livelihood to the incumbent teachers and at the same time spreading out of education in backward and remote areas will not be hampered. But we would suggest that these teachers should be given opportunity of getting regularised as they will be rendering four years of service or even more by the time the tenure of fresh order expires. ReT was initiated on the behest of some MLAs whose constituencies fell in backward or close to LoC areas. Unless the schools in these areas are provided regular staff, education of these areas will not show satisfactory progress.
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