Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday handed over appointment letters to around 3,500 secondary level teachers here and assured that the recruitment drive will continue in the state despite challenges like “CBI and ED raids”.
3,469 teachers will be posted in all 24 districts of the state.
Terming the day as historic, the chief minister said the government was determined to continue with its development programs and appointments even though the country, including the eastern state, was facing another pandemic – “CBI and ED raids”. Listing the action by central agencies in the state at “the behest of the Centre” as a challenge, Soren said, “Jharkhand’s economy was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, but we faced it and provided relief to our people.” of. As soon as possible. As we overcame the pandemic, we faced another pandemic.”The whole country is facing CBI, ED raids and our state is no exception. They can continue with their search and we will continue with our development programs and appointments.” The Chief Minister said this while addressing a program at Tana Bhagat Indoor Stadium in Khelgaon.
The Enforcement Directorate is probing over a dozen land deals in the state, including one related to defense land, in which a group of mafias, middlemen and bureaucrats allegedly “colluded” since 1932 to forge deeds and documents Was. It has been alleged that parcels of land belonging to the poor were grabbed under this fraud.
It has already arrested two Jharkhand cadre IAS officers – Chhavi Ranjan in alleged illegal land deals and Puja Singhal in Khunti in a money laundering case involving alleged embezzlement of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme funds and other dubious financial transactions.
The CBI has also conducted several raids in the recent past.
Soren said, “Despite getting the status of a separate state, Jharkhand is the most backward state in the country, though it has enough mineral and other resources that promote development across the country.”
“We will continue our recruitment drive,” he said, citing the recent induction of additional public prosecutors, assistant engineers, medical officers and nurses.
He said that many candidates of BPL category who passed the examination of Jharkhand Public Service Commission have been appointed on various posts.
Appointment letters were given to teachers to educate students in regional languages including Santhali, Mundari and Kudukh.
Of these, 779 teachers were for History and Civics, 398 for Sanskrit, 341 for Geography, 337 for Hindi, 260 for Economics and 268 for Mathematics and Physics.
Apart from 249 English teachers, 232 trained in biology and chemistry, 184 in physical education, 118 in commerce, 97 in music, 27 in Urdu and 50 in home science were also given appointment letters.
The teachers who got appointment letters include Santhali (42), Bangla (29), Kudukh (28), Nagpuri and Mundari (11 each), Kurmali (4), Oriya (2) and Panchpargania and Ho (1 each). are of subjects. ,
Maximum 279 teachers are for Ranchi, 263 teachers for East Singhbhum, 240 teachers for Dhanbad, 230 teachers for Seraikela-Kharsawan, 228 teachers for Godda and 200 teachers for West Singhbhum.
Meanwhile, the BJP criticized the JMM-led government over its employment policy and claimed that these recruitments were possible due to the efforts of the previous BJP government in the state.
BJP state president and MP Deepak Prakash challenged the chief minister to come out with the facts about these appointments.
As far as the appointments of these teachers are concerned, the public and the candidates know that this is the handiwork of the previous BJP government. The vacancies were advertised during the Raghubar Das government’s tenure in 2016.”
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