Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on Friday distributed appointment letters to 4560 teachers of master cadre and 2005 teachers belonging to ETT cadre.
Sukhbir congratulated the efforts of the state Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema and the entire department saying that it was a very big and prestigious responsibility to be a teacher who shoulders the responsibility to mould the future of the nation. “That explains why the emphasis of the SAD-BJP Government is to invest more and more into the educational sector,” he said.
“During the course of previous nine years, the state government has provided 2.50 lakh jobs in various departments in a transparent and fair manner,” he said.
During the next month, nearly 30,000 more contractual employees would be absorbed in the various departments as it is the prime endeavour of the state government to fill vacancies in all departments as soon as possible in order to make process of governance more faster, he said.
Making a strong pitch for development, Sukhbir said that the SAD-BJP government has taken path breaking innovative measures in various sectors which includes surplus and cheapest power, excellent road infrastructure, sewerage and clean drinking water in 100 cities with 60 more to follow, preservation of culture in the form of construction of memorials belonging to all religions and beautification of all religious places.
“Whatever the government has said, it has accomplished,” he said while announcing that in the next five years, all 12,000 villages of the state would be equipped with sewerage facilities at a cost of `35,000 crore.
Congratulating all the teachers, Cheema said that during the previous nine years, the education department has recruited 84,000 teachers. The teachers have been selected after a rigorous process encompassing Teachers Eligibility Test and Subject and Aptitude Test.
Cheema, making another significant announcement, said that the stations to the newly-appointed teachers would be allotted as per merit on November 3 and 4.