Hyderabad : Of the total posts, 70 per cent (21, 650) were open to both B. Ed and D.
Ed candidates and the remaining 30 per cent jobs (9,114) would be reserved for D. Ed candidates."

D. M.V. Prasada Rao Minister for secondary education The state government has decided to stick to its earlier controversial orders of keeping aside 30 per cent quota for D.Ed candidates for the recruitment of 30,764 secondary grade teachers.

The quota had been strongly opposed by B.Ed candidates who had protested in front of the Legislative Assembly, Secretariat and ministers’ quarters this week and had even clashed with the police forcing the government to invite them for talks to resolve the issue.

The minister for secondary education, Mr D. Manikya Vara Prasada Rao, met B.Ed and D.Ed candidates over two days and later referred the matter to the advocategeneral and sought legal opinion over the issue.

The advocate general advised the government to implement GO No 28 that prescribed 30 per cent quota for D.Ed candidates.

“The government has decided to implement 30 per cent quota due to legal compulsions. We are left with no other option,” said Mr Rao.

He said the department of school education would announce the counselling schedule within two days for issuing appointment letters to about 31,000 candidates selected in the DSC teacher recruitment exam held in May 2009.

He added that of the total posts, 70 per cent (21,650) were open to both B.Ed and D.Ed candidates and the remaining 30 per cent jobs (9,114) would be exclusively reserved for D.Ed candidates. The recruitment process has been pending due to legal issues for nearly two years since the notification was issued in December 2008.

The B.Ed candidates, however, lambasted the government for the 30 per cent quota and said they would intensify their agitation against the decision. They said they would announce their future course of action on Friday.