Handing over appointment letters to 4,500 newly recruited teachers, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday exhorted them to discharge their
duties as nation builders
with utmost devotion, honesty and commitment to shape the destiny of our future generations.
Badal said that it was the matter of great joy and satisfaction both for him and the State Government to hand over appointment letters after a long drawn strenuous procedure to ensure fair selection.
“I have been apprised by the Education Minister that the entire recruitment process has been done solely on the merit,” said Badal.
The Chief Minister emphasised the need to always ensure the selection process in a fair, transparent and unbiased manner to enable the bright and capable students to prove their worth and it was all the more important especially in the case of teachers, who were responsible for strong foundation of the student’s career.
“Around 14,000 more teachers would be recruited soon as the selection process was already on way,” he said.
Also congratulating the candidates as well as their parents for their sheer hard work in securing a Government job, Badal called upon them to desist from the trend to get their places of posting frequently changed through mounting pressure on the authorities, which was unfair especially for the young teachers who could easily serve in the rural areas more enthusiastically in the prime of their youth.
He rued that lot of time and energy was wasted on transfers and postings adding that where such transfers were mandatory in view of
some pressing family circumstances could be considered sympathetically but teacher should not make it a routine exercise.
“I have given a free hand to key departments of Health and Education to recruit
as much as staff they required against the vacant posts because paucity of staff in these departments adversely hampered their functioning and thus directly affects the life of a common man,” he said.