Bihar CM Nitish Kumar distributed appointment letters to 5,353 candidates, including 4,835 school clerks and 518 school attendants, appointed on compassionate grounds in secondary and higher secondary schools, at ‘Samvad’ located in the Chief Minister’s Secretariat.
Symbolically, Bihar CM handed over appointment letters to Mani Kumari, Amit Gaurav, Divya Raj, Kiran Kumari Gupta, and Tuba Ashraf.
Extending his greetings, the Chief Minister congratulated all the appointees and expressed confidence that they would perform their duties with honesty and dedication.
It is noteworthy that since 2006, the Education Department had provisions for compassionate appointments of dependents of deceased teachers and non-teaching staff as teachers. However, as many dependents did not meet the eligibility for teaching posts, in 2020 the government introduced appointments of clerks and attendants on a fixed pay through the recruitment unit, which continued until 2024. Recently, the state government has upgraded this provision, bringing the posts of clerks and attendants under the category of state employees, thereby improving their pay and service conditions.
Under this initiative, 4,835 clerks and 518 attendants have been appointed across Bihar today, including 212 clerks and 28 attendants in Patna district.
The programme was attended by Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, Water Resources and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary, Education Minister Sunil Kumar, Principal Secretary to the CM Deepak Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary (Education) Dr. S. Siddharth, Secretaries Anupam Kumar and Kumar Ravi, BSEIDC MD Inayat Khan, Patna Commissioner Dr. Chandra Shekhar Singh, Director of Primary Education Sahila, Patna DM Dr. Tyagarajan S.M., senior officials, and the newly appointed clerks and attendants.