With an aim to improve quality of education in state run schools the Akhilesh Yadav Government is all set to appoint 16,448 assistant teachers by the end of this month.
Sources in the government said that those students who have applied between June 30 and July 15 would be called for counseling. The counseling will be held on August 16, 17 and 24. The advertisement for counseling will be issued oAugust 8
“The selected candidates will be issued appointment letters by August 31. They would be asked to join by the mid of September,” the official said adding that Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has issued strict directives to improve quality of education and this appoint is a step towards that commitment.
The officials admit that there was acute shortage of teachers in the state-run schools which is adversely affecting quality of education. The worst affected is primary schools which depend on Shiksha mitras .
Officials mince no words in accepting that there was shortage of 2.58 lakh primary teachers in the state. “The government had advertised 72,825 posts of teachers in November 2011 but the High Court stayed the process. We are making all efforts to persuade the court to vacate the stay,’’ he said.
To meet the crisis the state government had increase the retirement age of the primary teachers of non-government and aided-schools from existing 60 years to 62 years. This was a long pending demand of teachers and this decision has given us a breathing time, the official said.