Tripura to appoint 4,600 UG teachers after 16 years

AGARTALA: The Tripura government has decided to appoint 4,606 undergraduate (UG) teachers in about 4,000 primary schools of the state. The last such recruitment was made 16 years ago in 1997. At present, the state has around 7,500 UG teachers for 4,000 schools. School education minister Tapan Chakraborty said on Friday that a special cabinet on Thursday night decided to appoint UG teachers as per the existing norms in Tripura, which allow for recruitment of teachers who have cleared Madhyamik.

The state government has taken this decision despite the fact that the Union ministry of human resource development (MHRD) hasn't approved relaxation of the qualification to the Madhyamik level as demanded by the state. The MHRD directive says recruited teachers must be at least higher secondary pass-outs with 50 per cent marks.
He added, however, that the MHRD has allowed appointment of UG teachers who haven't cleared the Teachers' Eligibility Test (TET) and basic training like BEd or other professional courses.
The process of recruitment will be completed in the next month so that from the forthcoming academic session, primary schools will get some more teachers, he asserted.
"We have for long been persuading the MHRD to relax the basic qualification of candidates to Madhyamik because the process of recruitment of UG teachers had started in 2002 when the Right to Education (RTE) Act was not in existence. But, for about a year, we did not get any response from the MHRD, which compelled us to take the decision on our own," Chakraborty said.
He pointed out that the state government could not afford to keep thousands of aspiring candidates waiting for years with uncertainty. He added that the state government has taken sufficient legal protection to ensure the teachers can keep their jobs even if they do not comply with the RTE Act.
Senior Congress legislator Ratan Lal Nath said primary education in the state is in a "fragile state", which is indirectly resulting in the mushrooming of low-quality private schools at the behest of the Left Front.
Welcoming the government's move, he said, "Interviews for the recruitment were first held in 2002 and more interviews for the same posts were held in 2006 and 2009, but the government did not recruit a single teacher. The process was on hold for over 16 years. Finally, the government has taken a good decision."
He further asserted that Congress would support the move but cautioned the government to take necessary legal protection before issuing offer letters to the teachers and to ensure that the employed teachers do not lose their job.
"We demanded that the government give priority to older candidates and base the recruitments on their qualification, putting aside their political affiliation and identity," Nath said, adding that more than 84,000 candidates had applied for the 4,606 UG teachers' posts since 2002.

Bangladeshi youth held in Tripura.My question is Why only him lots of Bangladeshi's are there in Tripura we all know.

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Tripura State Rifles (TSR) troopers have arrested a Bangladesh national with three lakh taka (Bangladesh currency) and two mobile phones, police said here Monday. Police are yet to ascertain the motive of Nunakashi Chakma, 28, for entering Indian territory with the large sum of cash. "During a routine operation by the TSR jawans, Chakma was arrested from bordering Raishyabari village (195 km from here in northern Tripura) Sunday night," a police spokesman said. The illegal entrant is a resident of Ghagracherri village in the mountainous Chittagong Hill Tracts in southeast Bangladesh. Senior police and intelligence officials were interrogating the tribal youth. India has stepped up security along the border with Bangladesh in view of the political turmoil in that country. "We have asked our jawans to keep a close watch on the border. Our men remain vigilant round-the-clock, especially where a substantial number of people reside across the border," BSF Public Relations Officer Bhaskar Rawat said. Another BSF official said: "We were apprehensive that when Bangladesh deploys its army before their general elections (due Jan 5) and starts taking action against miscreants and wrongdoers, there might be some influx of people from across the border into India." India shares a 4,096-km border with Bangladesh, including 856 km in Tripura. A large portion of the international border remains unfenced and porous. 

Tripura plans master plan to provide drinking water to all areas

The Tripura government will be preparing a master plan to provide drinking water to all localities of the State. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting to review the water and sanitation situation in remote habitations.

Officials said 134 localities, mostly tribal-dominated and remote, had no source of drinking water. The residents often face death and diseases due to consumption of contaminated water.

The review meeting chaired by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, Drinking and Water Sanitation (DWS) Minister Ratan Bhowmik and senior officials of different departments took stock of the water and sanitation situation in the State. The meeting decided to get ready a master plan to ensure supply of drinking water in hitherto unattended localities.

“The Chief Minister wanted the plan be ready by January 3, and initiate measures thereafter,” a DWS official said on Sunday. A committee with Chief Conservator of Forests Sanatan Talukder as chair has been constituted for the purpose.

The meeting extensively discussed possible measures to help out distressed people. Even shifting of some tribal hamlets to areas near permanent water sources was suggested. A decision was taken to involve the Forests and Tribal Welfare Department in a lead role with the assistance of relevant departments to solve the water crisis.

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Tripura constitutes child rights panel

The Tripura government has constituted the Commission for Protection of Child Rights to deal with the related issues in the state, officials said here Wednesday.
"The six-member commission was constituted recently with the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist senior leader and social activist Rupa Ganguly as its chairperson," the state's social welfare department official told IANS.
He said the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has been asking all the state governments for the past many years to set up the state commission.
According to the official, Tripura is the first state in the northeastern region to constitute such a commission on child rights.
The NCPCR was set up in March 2007 under the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005.
The commission's mandate is to ensure that all laws, policies, programmes and administrative mechanisms are in consonance with the child rights perspective as enshrined in the Constitution of India, and also the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The child is defined as a person in the 0 to 18 years age group.

Tripura to commercial produce bamboo shoots

Considering the growing demand for bamboo shoots as an Asian delicacy in starred hotels, the Tripura government is planning to commercially produce the vegetable.

Sources said that the state government had initially selected an area of 60 hectares at Belbari in West Tripura district to cultivate a special variety of bamboo for commercial exploitation.

"The State Bamboo Mission is giving all-out help to the project," BDO of Jirania block in which the area falls, Argha Saha said.

Indraneel Bhaumik, Associate Professor of Economics in Tripura University says that Tripura is one of the best bamboo producing states in the country.

"If planned and scientific cultivation is started, it would bring a balance to the demand and supply of bamboo and open a new opportunity of import of shoots," he said.

The mission has decided to cultivate a species found in Thailand - Gendu Calamus - which makes palatable dishes, Saha says.

Sources in the Mission said it had already made a test field of cultivating bamboo shoots at Peratia in Gomati district which emerged as a successful model which would be practiced at Belbari.

The programme manager of Bamboo Mission, Ramnarayan Pande, said self-help groups would be engaged in producing the plants and all technical and monetary helps rendered to them.

A traditional forest vegetable in China for more than 2,500 years, bamboo shoots are not only delicious, but also rich in nutrients, and rank among the five most popular healthcare foods in the world.

In Japan, the bamboo shoot is known as the king of forest vegetables.

The shoots are eaten very widely by the Mongoloid people in the whole Northeast and of late are also being widely consumed by the non-Mongoloid people.