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Agartala: The Tripura High Court wants answers. Chief Justice M. S. Ramachandra Rao and Justice Biswajit Palit ordered the state government on August 20 to file an additional counter affidavit detailing how it plans to fill 1,116 Post Graduate Teacher positions. The bench also demanded a status report on the ongoing Graduate Teacher recruitment process.
The court took up this issue on its own motion through a public interest litigation. Judges pressed the state to provide a firm timeline for filling all remaining Graduate Teacher posts. Advocate General requested more time to review a recent report from the NITI Aayog and a counter affidavit from the Union of India. The court granted the request and set the next hearing for September 9, 2026.
Classrooms face a leadership crisis. A large portion of high schools and higher secondary schools currently run under the supervision of Teachers-in-Charge instead of permanent Headmasters or Assistant Headmasters. The court ordered the state to explain why these temporary arrangements persist and why it has failed to fill vacant leadership roles. Officials must also report on all open sanctioned positions for Headmasters and Inspectors of Schools.
Concerns over staffing hit the rural sector hard. Reports filed across the Bar suggest some schools under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council operate with only a single teacher. "The state government has been directed to provide data relating to such schools in its additional counter affidavit," the order stated.
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