Tripura Govt Announces Free Durga Puja Rations and Hundreds of New Teacher Posts

Tripura Cabinet has approved free ration supplies for the Durga Puja festival, covering nearly 9.92 lakh ration card holders. Each beneficiary will get 1 kg sugar, 2 kg flour and 500 g semolina at no cost, to be handed out through Fair Price Shops in October and November. The state will buy about 243 tonnes of semolina, 1,984 tonnes of flour and 930 tonnes of sugar, with spending estimated between ₹9.35 crore and ₹9.85 crore. The cabinet also cleared 700 Graduate Teacher (SCGT) positions for classes IX and X under the Secondary Education Department, with recruitment following the standard pay scale. An additional 361 posts were approved in the Elementary Education Department, including 75 Graduate Teacher and 286 Under‑Graduate Teacher roles. Further appointments include 213 staff for the Agartala Municipal Corporation in engineering, accounts, electrician, mechanic, surveyor, amin, junior computer assistant, inspector, constable and multipurpose assistant posts. The sitting allowance for the Scheduled Caste Welfare sub‑committee chair and members rose from ₹100 to ₹200 per meeting. Daily boarding allowance for students under the Minority Welfare Department increased from ₹65 to ₹100 per student. The cabinet created the Tripura Staff Selection Commission to run exams for Group‑B, C and D state jobs and approved eight Lower Division Clerk posts in the Science and Technology Department.

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The ration scheme aims to ease household expenses during the major festival, while the large teacher recruitment drive addresses chronic staff shortages in Tripura’s schools. The new selection commission centralises hiring for many lower‑level government posts.