TURA: Members of the teaching fraternity, who have cleared last year’s Meghalaya Teachers Eligibility Test (MTET), have moved Chief Minister Conrad Sangma over the delay in holding interviews, stating that many successful candidates could lose out on the eligibility criteria.
In a memorandum to Conrad, the teachers said, “There are many vacant UP and LP posts for teachers across the state but we are not getting any intimation for interviews for the various posts available from the concerned department”.
Their worry is that the long delay would result in many becoming ineligible since the validity of the test has been reduced from seven to two years from the date of declaration of the tests.
“We have apprised the CM of the need for the Education department to expedite the process because much valuable time has been lost all this while,” stated the teachers.
While authorities have cited that COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown has been the reason for the delay in interviews, the teachers claim that ongoing examinations and interviews for other vacancies and posts have come to light.