The Uttarakhand education department organised counseling sessions of guest teachers for the position of lecturer in Dehradun district on Friday. The Chief Education Officer (CEO) of Dehradun, SP Khali told The Pioneer that a pool of 304 candidates for guest lecturers was made in the district after the counseling session. He informed that 152 posts of lecturers are vacant in the Government Inter Colleges (GIC) and Government Girl Inter Colleges (GGIC) in the district and the guest teachers from this pool would be selected to teach in these schools. Out of total 152 positions 28 are for reserved for women candidates. Khali said that the counseling sessions for lecturers were held in all the six blocks of the district.
The department would organise counseling for the position of lecturer Teachers (lT) on Saturday. The CEO or Dehradun said that 95 posts of lT are vacant in the district. The department would make a pool of these teachers which would have twice the number of candidates against the vacant posts. A block wise merit list of the candidates who applied for the position of guest faculty was prepared in which marks of their high school, inter college, graduation, post graduation and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) course were considered.
These appointments would be purely temporary and the education department would remove them once permanent teachers are available. A remuneration of `125 per period would be paid to lT while the lecturers would be given `150 per period provided the total monthly payment does not exceed `15,000.