With the State Government’s decision to remove the ban imposed in promotions, the process of promotions in the education department has started. On Friday, the department released first list of promotions. In the list, twenty officer of the department were promoted to the rank of Block Education Officer (BEO).
The department has also completed the process of promotions on 1949 posts of Lecturers and Licensed Teachers (LT) which is expected to be released soon. Meanwhile the education minister Arvind Pandey has allayed the fears of the guest teachers about their future.
The minister assured that no guest teacher would be removed. He said that these teachers would be appointed on the vacant posts created by the promotion of teachers. Recently the education department had appointed about 5000 guest teachers on the vacant posts of Lectures and LT.The department had selected 5034 candidates in the year 2018 for guest teachers but the legal tangles prevented the department to give them appointment letters.
On January 14 this year, the Supreme Court (SC) allowed the education department to appoint guest teachers on vacant posts till permanent appointment are made. In its orders the SC had clearly said that the appointment of guest teachers should be purely temporary.
The guest teachers are being paid a monthly remuneration of Rs 15000 and were appointed on the condition that they would be removed once the permanent teachers either from direct recruitment or from promotion are appointed on these posts.
After the state government removed ban on promotion the guest teachers become worried about their future.