At least 252 young job aspirants, aiming to work as probationary assistant school teachers in primary and secondary civic-run schools in Mumbai, who were allegedly rejected as their primary education was not in English, by the BMC three years ago, now see a ray of hope, after the chief minister’s intervention in the matter.

Members of the Maharashtra Students Union (MASU), last week met Chief Minister Eknath Shinde about the matter and he directed civic chief Iqbal Singh Chahal to look into it. “These job aspirants, from different parts of the state, had cleared the Maharashtra Teacher Aptitude and Intelligence Test (MahaTAIT), as part of the selection process to fill 12,000 vacancies (at civic/municipal council/zilla parishad schools, etc.). The 252 candidates were among those who had opted for BMC-run schools as their preference,” said advocate Siddharth Ingle, founder president of MASU, who led the delegation to meet the CM.