With thousands of posts of lying vacant in schools, the State Government on Thursday decided to engage as many as 21,880 teachers as Shiksha Sahayaks and contractual teachers by the end of November. As per the decision taken at a meeting held under the chairmanship of CM Naveen Patnaik, while 4,700 contractual teachers would be engaged before the Durga Puja vacation in October, the engagement process of 17,181 Shiksha Sahayaks would be completed by the end of November. The engagements would be done under the Rastriya Secondary Education Campaign of the Union Government. The State Government had decided to engage 14,181 Siksha Sahayaks and 3,500 language teachers during the 2013 academic year. The CM asked the School and Mass Education Department to expedite the process and complete construction of proposed school buildings. He also asked the Minister of School and Mass Education to take steps for setting up of more BEd and CT training institutes to cater to the need of qualified teachers and also to start programmes to provide training to Hindi and other language teachers.