Siddhartha Bhattacharya

Contractual teachers appointed through the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) in Assam over the years are so annoyed with State Education Minister Siddhartha Bhattacharyya that they have taken a page out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Main Bhi Chowkidar" campaign to register their protest.

In a written reply to a query by AGP MLA Utpal Dutta, Education Minister Siddhartha Bhattacharya said a total of 36,523 teaching posts are vacant at present, including 17,293 posts in primary schools.

The contraction was driven by particularly poor performance of the manufacturing sector, says an expert.

Contractual teachers appointed through the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) in Assam over the years are so annoyed with State Education Minister Siddhartha Bhattacharyya that they have taken a page out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Main Bhi Chowkidar" campaign to register their protest.

In a written reply to a query by AGP MLA Utpal Dutta, Education Minister Siddhartha Bhattacharya said a total of 36,523 teaching posts are vacant at present, including 17,293 posts in primary schools.

The contraction was driven by particularly poor performance of the manufacturing sector, says an expert.