India, July 16 -- Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday directed the education department to identify teachers' vacancy at the earliest to initiate the process for holding exams for recruitment.

"I have directed the education department to identify vacancies immediately so that the Teachers' Recruitment Examination (TRE-4) could be held for filling them. The government has also made it clear that there would be 35% reservation in recruitment for women from the state," Kumar said in a post on X.

The effort is to complete the process before the model code of conduct for the upcoming state polls comes into force, said an official familiar with the matter.

The Bihar government has carried out large-scale recruitment in schools in ...