Nitish Kumar asks schooling division to hurry up recruitment of lecturers

Ahead of the meeting election, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday requested the Education Department to rely the vacant submit within the authorities college to conduct the Teachers Recruitment Test 4 (TRE-4) in order that recruitment of lecturers may very well be accomplished as quickly as attainable.

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

The Bihar Cabinet on July 8, 2025 made domicile necessary for accessing the 35% reservation for girls in State authorities jobs. Previously, girls from outdoors Bihar might 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 Education Department to right away rely the vacancies for lecturers in authorities colleges and take motion to conduct the TRE 4 examination for appointments as quickly as attainable.”

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

Keeping 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 recent one crore jobs and employment alternatives within the state over the subsequent 5 years.

Recently, Mr. Kumar had introduced to date, over 10 lakh youth within the state have been supplied with authorities jobs, and roughly 39 lakh folks 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 information of vacancies obtainable. More than 3 lakh instructor posts are vacant in Bihar. If the Chief Minister’s intentions are clear for instructor recruitment, then he must instantly subject 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. According to the working model of the NDA authorities, even when the notification is issued now, it’s going to get caught within the mannequin code of conduct (MCC).”