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Shortage of Urdu teachers at institutes of education

By N. Rahul

HYDERABAD Nov. 9 . Shortage of Urdu teachers to train candidates at the District Institutes of Education (DIETs) is staring in the face of the Education Department.

The DIET train candidates for a two-year diploma in education for recruitment as secondary grade teachers (SGTs) to teach all subjects at the primary level of school education and the teacher trainers are required to be post-graduates in arts and science coupled with master's degree holders in education.

There are already 16 posts of teacher which were recently sanctioned in existing institutions, waiting to be filled, and in addition the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) is likely to grant permission for Urdu sections in the next academic year in four more institutions at Adilabad, Medak, Nellore and Karimnagar. Each section will have a combined strength of five teachers.

The authorities are faced with the problem of finding qualified candidates in filling the vacancies. They have not only to carry out recruitment for these posts with the handicap but also fill 14 more vacancies which have arisen from promotional channel.

A court direction is delaying filling of the vacancies arising from promotions, according to P. Veerabhadra Reddy, Joint Director (Services), School Education.

The department could find Urdu medium teachers with post-graduate qualification in the early `80s for the Teacher Training Institutes (TTIs) which have since been upgraded to DIET.

The same set of teachers have continued in the DIET. When vacancies in the posts arose due to retirement, the same could not be filled by promotion for want of candidates.

The direct recruitment of Urdu teachers for the DIET also did not take place subsequently for shortage of candidates.

In the case of teacher trainers for B.Ed. colleges coaching candidates for school assistant posts in Urdu medium, it was relatively easy for the managements to complete the recruitment as all the three institutions were in private sector. The managements recruited retired teachers or relaxed norms for the purpose.

While there are so many vacancies in the DIET on the one hand, the picture emerging from the universities and the three education colleges where the candidates are groomed is hardly encouraging.

The officials aver that they were not getting Urdu medium post-graduates who offered mathematics, physics and chemistry to complete the recruitment. PGs who opted botany and zoology as electives were, however, available to take up the jobs.

It is in this background that the officials look to the Maulana Azad National Urdu University with hope to produce right candidates for the jobs but it is too early to get the results since the university students have just completed the first year of their undergraduate courses.

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