Nitish Kumar asks schooling division to hurry up recruitment of lecturers

Forward of the meeting election, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday requested the Schooling Division to depend the vacant publish within the authorities faculty to conduct the Academics Recruitment Check 4 (TRE-4) in order that recruitment of lecturers may very well be finished as quickly as potential.

Mr. Kumar asserted that the state authorities has already clarified that the good thing about 35% reservation for ladies in recruitment will probably be given solely to ladies domiciles in Bihar.

The Bihar Cupboard on July 8, 2025 made domicile obligatory for accessing the 35% reservation for ladies in State authorities jobs. Beforehand, ladies from exterior Bihar may additionally profit from the reservation coverage, which was launched by the State authorities in 2016.

Mr. Kumar posted a message on social media platform ‘X’ saying, “I’ve instructed the Schooling Division to instantly depend the vacancies for lecturers in authorities faculties and take motion to conduct the TRE 4 examination for appointments as quickly as potential.”

In January, Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary had introduced that greater than 80,000 lecturers are going to be appointed within the fourth section of TRE earlier than the meeting election. He had additionally mentioned that round 20,000 vacant posts had been left in TRE-3 and these posts could be included in TRE-4 which implies at the least 1 lakh posts are vacant.

Conserving the meeting election in thoughts, Mr. Kumar has given particular consideration to the roles and recruitment. On July 15 itself, the Bihar cupboard gave its nod for creation of latest one crore jobs and employment alternatives within the state over the subsequent 5 years.

Lately, Mr. Kumar had introduced to date, over 10 lakh youth within the state have been supplied with authorities jobs, and roughly 39 lakh individuals have been given employment.

Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) spokesperson Chitaranjan Gagan termed the announcement of Chief Minister to conduct TRE-4 for instructor recruitment as a mere election slogan.

“He nonetheless asking for vacancies from the schooling division whereas the federal government already has the info of vacancies obtainable. Greater than 3 lakh instructor posts are vacant in Bihar. If the Chief Minister’s intentions are clear for instructor recruitment, then he should instantly challenge a notification for recruitment with domicile and begin the method of recruitment,”Mr. Gagan mentioned.

He additional mentioned, “The Chief Minister all of the sudden remembered TRE-4 when half of July has handed and the announcement of Bihar meeting elections goes to be made within the subsequent one and a half months. Based on the working type of the NDA authorities, even when the notification is issued now, it would get caught within the mannequin code of conduct (MCC).”