Punjab Government on Monday given its nod to promote 4,500 head teachers from ETT teachers and 58 Block Primary Education Officers (BPEO) from the Centre head teacher post.
The step has been promulgated as part of the State Government’s policy to fill all the vacancies in primary schools signifying importance towards the primary education, said State Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema on Monday, after taking the decision in a meeting with Employee Welfare Board president Surinder Singh Pehalwan and teacher leaders.
“With the promotion of head teachers, no primary school with student strength of 30 or more would now be sans head teacher,” said Cheema.
He said the process of recruiting 4,500 ETT teachers was in the final stages and the advertisement to recruit 2,006 more ETT teachers had also been issued.
In another decision, Cheema empowered the District Education Officers (DEOs) to sanction foreign leave up to one month. Similarly, the authority to sanction ex-India leave up to two months would rest with the DPIs and up to three months with the Principal Secretary.
Besides, the Minister said keeping in view local fairs and festivals, now two local holidays would be sanctioned by the school heads with the prior permission of the District Education Officer (DEO).