Urdu medium posts may be de-reserved

Efforts are being made to de-reserve Urdu medium teacher posts which have been lying vacant for the last 20 years in the government Urdu medium schools in the Agency areas to recruit those teacher posts on regular basis with the eligible and trained Urdu medium candidates in the Adilabad district of Telangana.

These posts were reserved for tribal candidates in the Agency areas and cannot be filled with candidates of other communities. But there were no eligible Urdu medium candidates from Tribals to recruit them in the posts reserved for them.

However, experts say that de-reservation of Urdu medium posts which were  reserved for tribals in the areas was not easy process and this needs amendment of tribal laws at state and central governments level.

There are 58 Urdu medium teacher posts which were laying vacant at 20 Urdu medium schools at various places in the Agency areas right now in the district. All these schools are being run by vidya volunteers of Urdu medium.

In some cases, parents have admitted their children in Telugu medium schools due to lack of regular teachers and poor studies at Urdu medium schools in the same location.

   

There was good demand for Urdu medium schools in the Agency areas as Muslim Minority population was in considerable numbers in the agency areas in  Utnoor, Indravelli, Ichoda, Kerameri, Asifabad, Jainoor and Narnoor mandals in the district.              

Urdu medium teacher posts have not been filled though posts were notified in many DSC notifications as there were no suitable eligible candidates from the Tribal communities as the posts were reserved for tribals in the Agency areas.

Two ministers of this district Jogu Ramanna and Allola Indrakaran Reddy were making efforts to de-reserve Urdu posts to fill them with Muslim minorities. There were many Muslim minority eligible candidates for the Urdu teacher posts in government schools but cannot be filed the posts with them in the Agency.

Muslim minority organizations many times represented to the governments, Ministers and officials concerned expressing their concern over Urdu medium schools running in agency area under ITDA, Utnoor in pathetic condition where nearly 2,000 students were studying. The scheduled area norms have become an obstacle in recruiting the Muslim Minority candidates. 

Along with Khanapur MLA Rekha Naik, a team led by district convenor Syed Karim of Telangana Minority Welfare Society, met the deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali and requested him to take steps to improve the facilities at Urdu medium schools in the agency areas in the Adilabad district and appoint minority Urdu teachers with conditional appointment on regular basis. 

Two years ago, an Urdu medium primary school was closed down due to lack of teachers at IB Chowrasta of Utnoor. Teacher MLC P. Sudhakar Reddy has also advocated de-reserve Urdu medium teacher posts to recruit the posts lying vacant for long years in the agency in the district.

                                                                                                               (Sept 23,2015)