CBSE to hold job test for KV, JNV teachers

Seema Kaul

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Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 3

For the first time, and probably the last too, the CBSE would be conducting the recruitment test for teachers of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas and Kendriya Vidyalayas this year.

CBSE Chairman Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi today said the tests would be conducted only this year.

“This is the first and last time we will conduct the recruitment exam. From next year, it is upto the two organisations (KVs and JNVs) as to how they want to conduct it. Unless we insist, they will not develop their own system,” said Chaturvedi, adding that there was a difference in philosophy and concept between conducting recruitment tests and testing school students eligibility (NEET exam) for a particular course of study.

Chaturvedi was speaking to journalists after the CBSE teachers awards function here today. There are 1,137 KVs with over 12 lakh students across India. At least 55,000 teachers are employed with these schools, which cater primarily to the children of transferred central government employees. 

The JNVs are managed by the NV Samiti, which was set up in 1986, provide co-educational residential school facility in rural areas of India. According to a NV Samiti evaluation report of March 2015 by the NITI Aayog, vacancy of 20 per cent of regular teachers is being filled up by the contractual teachers. 

Applauding the role of teachers in nation building, MoS HRD Upendra Kushwaha said these awards were an acknowledgement of the role and impact of teachers in strengthening future generations.