HTET QUALIFIED CANDIDATES OFFERED TEACHING JOB WITHOUT SALARY IN HARYANA : TIMES OF INDIA

AMBALA: A total of 1.25 lakh job aspirants who have qualified the Haryana teachers eligibility test (HTET) have offered their services without salary till the government starts the process of regular recruitment.

Patra Adhyapak Sangh, the association of candidates who have qualified HTET have started collecting affidavits to be forwarded to the education directorate during an agitation scheduled to be held in Panchkula on Wednesday.

The sangh had also moved a public interest litigation (PIL), questioning the government's intensions towards recruitment of regular teachers in the state last year. Tilak Raj, adviser and district president of the sangh had filed the PIL in the high court and had alleged that the Haryana government was deliberately delaying the recruitment of teachers on a regular basis.

"After that the Haryana government had filed five affidavits before the court, promising that it will soon advertise posts for regular teachers. But till now the government has not done anything', said Tilak Raj. The last affidavit was filed by the government in the court in December last year.

"We have analyzed the government's excuses for not filling up regular posts. We have decided to work without salary so that the government doesn't make any more excuses," he said. Rajender Sharma, state president of the sangh said, "These 1.25 lakh people are eligible candidates for teachers' posts. But they see a bleak future ahead. We are left with no option but to work withoutsalary to make the government realize the gravity of the situation."