The walk-in interview for the applicants interested in taking evening classes in various Government degree colleges in Dehradun will be held at Collectorate campus on Sunday. The students who had passed National Eligibility Test (NET) and State Eligibility Test can appear in the interview which will be conducted by a committee headed by the district magistrate in each of the districts on different dates. These teachers will be paid Rs250 per class. Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar districts will conduct such walk- in interviews on Saturday while Rudraprayag district on September 29, Pauri district, on September 30 and Uttarkashi, on October 4, said the higher education director Jagdish Prasad while talking to The Pioneer on Friday.
A total of 17 retired college teachers were recruited by a committee headed by Kumaon Commissioner at his office on September 20 while eight retired teachers were recruited by the Garhwal Commissioner at his office the same day. The selected retired teachers aged below 70 years would be paid the same salary as they had received when they retired sans the pension amount, he added.
Prasad further said that around 200 teaching staff members will be recruited for conducting evening classes in around 30 Government and government-aided degree colleges in the State. Around 10,000 students are expected to get admission on various Bachelor degree courses in the evening classes in around 30 Government degree colleges in the State. Admission process in degree colleges has already begun and he expressed hope that academic session in evening classes may begin from October 1.
As many as 960 seats for the evening classes on various degree courses in DAV (PG) College were allocated by Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand University. The College principal Devendra Bhasin said that the college will start selling admission merit forms for the evening classes from Monday.
It should be mentioned here that to accommodate Class XII passed students who wish to complete their higher education in the State, the State Government had recently allocated seats on various Bachelor degree courses for evening classes to the Government and Government- aided degree colleges.