Agartala, Nov 14: Tripura is targeting the recruitment of around 700 professors and assistant professors for government colleges within the next six to seven months to address faculty shortages across the state, Higher Education Minister Kishor Barman said on Saturday in the sidelines of a programme of distribution of scholarships under CSR activities.
Providing a breakdown of the recruitment plan, Barman said 74 professors and assistant professors had already joined against 201 posts referred to the Tripura Public Service Commission (TPSC). The recruitment process for the remaining vacancies is expected to be completed within the next two to three months.
The government is preparing to send another proposal for 200 teaching posts to the TPSC, while a separate proposal for 300 additional posts has been forwarded to the Finance Department for approval, he said.
Taken together, the three recruitment phases account for 701 teaching posts, including the 74 appointments already made.
The Highet Education Minister attributed delays in the recruitment process to the requirement of engaging separate subject experts from outside the state for TPSC interviews, whose availability often affects scheduling.
He said the introduction of the semester system under the National Education Policy (NEP), replacing the earlier three-year undergraduate structure with six semesters, had increased the demand for subject-specific teachers.
“We expect to complete the entire recruitment process within the next six to seven months so that colleges do not face shortages of teachers,” Barman said.
On concerns over the validity of B.Ed certificates, he said the NEP had brought greater clarity to the operation of B.Ed programmes, allowing eligible colleges, including prominent district-level institutions, to independently introduce the course.
He cited the introduction of a B.Ed programme at Dharmanagar College, for which the Higher Education Department had already granted permission. The department had not received any complaint about forged B.Ed certificates so far, he said, adding that appropriate action would follow if any such case came to its notice.
Barman was speaking on the sidelines of Shriram Finance Pvt Ltd’s ‘Navagati Education Scholarship’ programme, which he described as an encouraging example of corporate social responsibility (CSR) support reaching students directly.
The company’s North East Business Head, Saurabh Das, said Tripura was its first destination in the region for the scholarship initiative in 2026, with similar programmes planned in Assam. The company aims to provide scholarships to around 550-600 students in Tripura, primarily children of financially disadvantaged families associated with the transport sector.
Appreciating the initiative, Barman said direct financial assistance to meritorious students from economically weaker families, particularly in rural areas, could help them continue their education and prevent dropouts.
