The education department has sent a requisition to the Uttarakhand Subordinate Service Commission (USSC) for recruitment of 1400 Licensed Teachers (LT) for its schools. The USSC is now expected to release advertisement for recruitment of LTs.
The Joint secretary secondary education, Kavindra Singh said that 728 posts would be for Kumaon division while 672 posts are reserved for Garhwal region.
He said that the process of giving joining to the guest teachers on the vacant posts of Lecturers and LTs is presently underway. It is worth mentioning here that 5034 candidates were selected by the department in the year 2018 for guest teachers but the legal tangles prevented the department to give them appointment letters.
The department is giving appointments to these teachers in accordance to the orders of the Supreme Court (SC) dated January 14 this year.
The SC in its order had 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 would be paid a monthly remuneration of Rs 15000 and would be removed once the permanent teachers either from direct recruitment or from promotion are appointed on these posts.
The education department has completed the process of promotion on 1949 posts of Lecturers and LTs but since the state government has issued a ban on promotion after the order of High Court (HC) on benefit of reservation in promotions, process is promotions is pending for long.