N Achumi
It is said that 'Fortune Favours a Brave' but in today's saturated competition world, fortune favours only those who work hard besides having excellent academic/ professional qualification and not those brave who depends on their excellent qualification alone to compete. In a competitive world, one needs to be as good as or better than others to get success besides the excellent qualification one hold. How one performs carries more weightage than what qualification one holds in any type of competition because result is declared according to performance in competitive exam and not according title/qualification/ certificate one holds.
The on-going of agitation by ANPSTA demanding to cancel/revoke the teacher recruitment result because all its members were not selected despite having training certificate looks odd in this stiff competition world. I think all the esteemed members of ANPSTA do not possess equal I.Q, aptitude and ability owing to individual difference. There is no doubt that some members are exceptionally outstanding whom I knew personally and those members got what they deserved to get. But alas, there are also some weak members too. So, will it be rational to select a weak because deserving candidates got selected?. Will it be fair if a candidate is selected because he/she holds excellent academic/ professional certificate even if he/she fail in open-competitive exam?. One need to know the difference between excellent academic/ professional certificate one holds and the importance of performance in competition world. As a members of one association, one should have feeling for those unsuccessful members and that shows the cordial relation in your association, which is a great example to other associations but demanding even to select fail members even if they don't well in competitive exam does not sound rational.
The Department too did gave preference to trained teachers by exempting them from 45% as minimum percentage in 10+2+3, which was applied on untrained teachers to apply for the post. And according to government clarifications, 20% marks questions were set from the syllabus of PSTE/B.Ed in written exam, which is a great advantage for trained teachers because even a decimal-point matters a lot in competitive exam. If one fail even after giving such advantage preference in a stiff competitive exam than it exposes one's own inefficiency and weakness, which cannot be corrected by others.
Even in up-coming Post Graduate Teacher (PGT) Examination, which is going to be held on 16th June 2012, the minimum mark percentage is 50% with preference to be given to B.Ed. But, even here, a candidate without B.Ed certificate will be selected if he/she performs well in the competitive exam contrary to preference mentioned in the advertisement. Hence, certificates cannot be taken as the sole determinant in competitive exam though it is essential in one's professional. If present teacher recruitment is cancelled / revoked by giving importance to certificate alone without considering the broad competitive examination point if view than this trends might continue even after the declaration of PGT and Assistant Professor recruitment result and it will become a vicious-circle, which will not be good in the competitive world.
In future, it will be good if a department or any organisation clarify or protest clearly and loudly at the time of advertisement and not after the declaration of result after remaining a mere spectator throughout the competitive examination. It is useless to blow an ash after a substance is burnt-off. Hence, it is my earnest request to esteemed ANPSTA to end the demands/ agitations and paves the way for your deserving members who got selected along with untrained but highly qualified and experienced teachers who got selected through their hardwork to start working for humanity, which is also one aim of an association I hope. Lastly, congratulations to all the successful candidates. Let us do our best to educate the young minds and help them in unfolding what is already enfolded inside them.
