WB Primary Teacher Recruitment 2012 Notification, Form & Eligibility

West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) has recently issued Primary Teacher Recruitment Notification 2012 for a huge vacancy of 3...

West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) has recently issued Primary Teacher Recruitment Notification 2012 for a huge vacancy of 34559 Primary Teachers. These Primary Teacher (named as Assistant Teachers) are going to be employed in the West Bengal Govt. Aided/Sponsored Primary/Junior Basic Schools. The recruitment notification has come out in leading news papers of  West Bengal on 19th October, 2012. 

I have therefore downloaded Google cached copy of this notification and uploaded the same in box.net. You can click here to download this WBBPE Recruitment Notification 2012. This blog post is dedicated to help you apply for WB Primary Teacher Recruitment 2012 by quoting the important information on Eligibility & Forms from above notification. Also, 40% of marks required to be selected as per this recruitment is based on West Bengal TET (Teacher Eligibility Test) and hence please go through my subsequent blog article titled: West Bengal TET Exam Pattern, Papers & Books to find the prep materials for the written exam.

Without wasting time further, let us find what is the vacancy position.

WB Primary Teacher Vacancy 2012:

There are a total of 34559 Primary Teacher vacancies. You can find the district-wise West Bengal Primary Teacher vacancies in the table at right. If you want to see district-wise, category-wise vacancy position of this recruitment, please find it in page-3 of the Notification

WB Primary Teacher Salary:

Salary being offered by WBBPE for the Primary Teacher is in the pay-scale of  Rs. 5400-Rs.25200/- + Grade Pay and other allowances.

Eligibility for WB Primary Teacher:

Age Eligibility: (as on 01.01.2012)
Minimum 18 years and Maximum 40 years.

Academic Qualification Eligibility: 
1.0 Higher Secondary pass under the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) or its equivalent with at least 50% marks and 2-year Diploma in Elementary Education (by whatever name known);

2.0 Higher Secondary pass under the WBCHSE or its equivalent with at least 45% marks and 2-year Diploma in Elementary Education in accordance with the National Council for Teacher Education (Recognition Norms and Procedure) Regulations 2002; OR 

3.0 Higher Secondary pass under the WBCHSE or its equivalent with at least 50% marks and Diploma in Education (Special Education); OR 

4.0 Graduation and two year Diploma in Elementary Education (by whatever name known); 

5.0 Able to read, write and speak in the language relating to the medium for which you wish to apply.

You should go through the detailed eligibility as given section "2. Qualification" as given in the Notification

WB Primary Teacher Selection Process:

Selection Process for WB Primary Teacher will consist of a 100 point weightage system, with weightage for various parameters given below:

1.0 Madhyamik pass under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education or its equivalent: 10
2.0 Higher Secondary pass under WBCHSE or its equivalent: 15
3.0 Training as prescribed in sub-rule (2) of rule 6: 20
4.0 Teacher Eligibility Test (TET): 40
5.0 Extra Curricular Activities: 05
6.0 Interview: 10
Total: 100

Marks to be allotted under Extra Curricular Activities given above are as given below:
1 Games and Sports: 1
2 National Cadet Corps (NCC) 1
3 Arts and Literature: 1
4 Performing Art (Drama): 1
5 Music: 1
Total: 5

As you can see in above mark distribution for selection of WB Primary Teacher Teachers, TET (Teacher Eligibility Test contains the highest weightage: 40. So your focus should to prepare for WB TET properly. Please visit my subsequent blog article titled: West Bengal TET Exam Pattern, Papers & Books to find the prep materials for this exam. WB TET dates would be notified by WBBPE subsequently.

WB Primary Teacher Recruitment 2012 Application Form:

You have to apply for WB Primary Teacher Recruitment 2012 through the application forms which has been made available from 16.11.2012 in select bank branches in all the 19 districts of West Bengal. These WB Primary Teacher forms would be available in the usual banking hours upto 30.11.2012.

You have to procure the Information Booklet-cum-Application Form from these bank branches and submit the filled-in form with required documents to the same branch from where the form is procured. Click here to find the list of bank branches where WB Primary Teacher Recruitment 2012 Application Form is available. Also go through this addendum to above notification.

Last date of submission of application form for WB Primary Teacher Recruitment 2012  is 30.11.2012.

That's it. Hope with above information on Notification, Form & Eligibility for WB Primary Teacher Recruitment 2012 you can apply for these teacher jobs confidently. Also check this WB Department of Education website.

To find the prep materials for WB TET, please visit my next blog post titled: West Bengal TET Exam Pattern, Papers & Books.

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