The National Education Society for Tribal Students (NESTS) has now invited online applications to recruit for over 4,000 positions (teaching and non-teaching) across the 401 functioning Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) for tribal students. The NESTS said that applications for the EMRS Staff Selection Examination (ESSE), 2023 will close on July 31.
The NESTS, which is the administrating body for the EMRSs, has notified that of these vacancies, 303 were for the post of Principal in these residential schools, 2,266 were for the post of Post-Graduate Teacher, and the rest were for the posts of Junior Secretariat Assistants, Lab Attendants, and Accountants.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced in this year’s Budget speech that the Union government had allowed for the direct recruitment of EMRS staff through the NESTS, which was a body functioning under the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs — recruitment that was till last year entrusted to the State administrative bodies of the schools.
