Punjab Education Department would soon fill 11,652 posts on regular basis. The recruitment process, to be made regarding different cadres, would be completed during the present session.
“The Education Department would soon fill 11,652 posts on regular basis and the advertisement to this effect would be issued within one week. The recruitment process to be made regarding different cadres would be completed during the present session so that newly recruited staff could be deputed in vacant schools before the next academic session,” said the state Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema on Tuesday.
He said that the department had made recruitments in different cadres in the past and filled 3,953 posts. “Now, with the new recruitments in respect of 11,652 posts, no school of the state would be devoid of the services of teachers,” he said.
Giving details, Cheema said that the department would recruit 50 principals, 430 head teachers, 650 lecturers, 7,000 master cadre and 3,522 primary teachers.
He said that qualifying the Punjab State Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) would be mandatory for master cadre and primary teachers, and the recruitments would be made on regular basis.
Cheema said that the recruitment advertisement containing details about qualifications, recruitment process and rules would be published within one week’s time.
“Recruitment directorate has been formed under Director General School Education for the purpose of recruiting teachers every year by the Education Department,” he said.
He said that this Directorate would be extremely beneficial in completion of the process of making 11,652 recruitments in minimal time. The number of posts to be filled was determined by rationalization of teachers carried out by the education department, he added.
The Minister added that after the passage of law by the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, the superannuation of teachers in the state would only be on March 31, and the number of vacancies every year would
be known after the superannuation of teachers on March 31 following which the recruitment process to fill the vacant posts would begin soon.