Karnataka proposes teacher recruitment rules prioritising competitive exam scores, fuels fears of encouraging coaching centres
The Hindu
Karnataka's new teacher recruitment rules prioritize competitive exam scores, raising concerns about reliance on coaching centers among aspirants.
The Karnataka government, which has amended the teacher recruitment rules, has brought in a major change in the weightage of marks, giving more importance to the competitive exam score rather than the marks obtained in B.Ed. and D.Ed. courses.
As per the Karnataka Education Department Services (Department of Public Instruction) (Recruitment) (Amendment) Rules, 2026, a total weightage of 0.90 points is given to competitive examination. Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) has reduced the weightage to pre-university (PUC), degree, B.Ed and D.Ed courses to 0.10 points.
Aspirants for the posts have alleged this will facilitate private tuition mafia.
For the recruitment of government school teachers, the selection authority prepares a merit list of eligible candidates based on the percentage of marks obtained in the competitive examination, TET, degree education and teacher’s education course, using weightage, and calculating the derived percentage. If two or more candidates obtain equal (derived percentage) marks, the one who is senior in age is considered.
Earlier, while filling the posts of Primary School Teacher (PST), teaching from classes 1 to 5, and Graduate Primary Teacher (GPT), teaching from classes 6 to 8, the merit list was prepared by giving 0.35 weightage to the marks obtained in the competitive examination, 0.15 weightage to the marks obtained in the TET examination, 0.25 to the marks obtained in the degree or PUC, and 0.25 weightage to the marks obtained in teacher’s education courses.
Also, for candidates with a four-year teacher education degree, 0.35 weightage was given to the marks obtained in the competitive examination, 0.15 weightage to marks obtained in the TET, and 0.50 weightage was given to the marks obtained in the four-year B.L.Ed., BA/B.Sc ED degree and other courses.
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