HC directs to recruit 483 teachers to academic institutions

The High Court today (June 29, 2022) directed the Non-government Teachers' Registration and Certification Authority (NTRCA) to recommend to the authorities concerned to recruit around 483 candidates, who qualified relevant exams as teachers of private educational institutions in 2018.

The bench of Justice Kashefa Hussain and Justice Kazi Zinat Hoque delivered the verdict after hearing four separate writ petitions filed by the candidates seeking necessary directives to this effect.  

Faruk Hasan, who moved two writ petitions for 210 qualified candidates, told The Daily Star that NTRCA will have to recommend to the authorities concerned of the private schools, colleges and madrasas to recruit all the 483 candidates, who filed the petitions, as early as possible after receiving the copy of the HC Verdict.

He said the petitioners have been qualified for the posts of teachers of the private schools, colleges and madrasas through preliminary, written and viva examinations and their results were published in 2019.

But, the NTRCA have not made recommendation for their recruitments even after they submitted memorandums to the NTRC and other relevant offices and formed human chains demanding recruitments, and therefore, they became aggrieved and filed the writ petitions at different times in 2021, he said, adding that the authorities will have to recruit the petitioners if NTRCA makes recommendations.

Lawyer Faruk said a total of 2,007 candidates, who qualified in 13th registration exams, have been appointed in December last year following a verdict delivered by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.

Deputy Attorney General Noor Us Sadik, who represented the state, said the HC asked the NTRCA to recommend for recruitments of the writ petitioners in accordance with law.