Recruitment Test for 45,000 Primary Teachers by April

The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has decided to conduct Assistant Teacher Recruitment Examination in Government Primary Schools by next April. Those who pass the exam will be recruited by July.

The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Mohammad Zakir Hossain at the ministry's meeting room at noon on Wednesday (March 9), a press release said today (March 10).

The Department of Primary Education issued a notification on October 20 last year to fill 32,577 vacant posts of assistant teachers. However, due to Covid-19, it was not possible to take the recruitment test. More than ten thousand posts of assistant teachers have already fallen vacant due to retirement. This has led to shortage of teachers in schools, which is hampering the teaching activities. In order to solve this problem, the ministry has decided to recruit about 45,000 assistant teachers by combining the vacancies of the previous notification and the vacancies after the notification.

In this context, Primary and Mass Education Secretary Aminul Islam Khan said that there is no alternative to education for the development, progress and building of a knowledge based society. Primary education builds the foundation of the nation. So the government is committed to ensuring quality primary education. Necessary steps will be taken for this purpose as soon as possible

The meeting was attended by the Director-General of the Department of Primary Education Alamgir Mohammad Mansurul Alam, Additional Secretary of the Ministry Abu Bakar Siddique, Ruhul Amin, Mosharraf Hossain and others.