Fulfilling its promise to provide jobs to the youth, the Akhilesh Yadav Government has started process to appoint over 75,000 teachers in the primary schools to bridge the gap between student and teachers. Basic Education Minister Ram Gobind Chaudhry told The Pioneer here on Monday that overcoming initial hiccups Government has started process to appoint primary teachers.
“In the first go around 15,000 teachers would be given jobs. By the start of next academic session the government will appoint 75,000 teachers in all,” the minister said.It is first initiative of the government to give over 1.50 lakh jobs by the end of this year. Government has also started appoint process in health, social sector, Panchayati Raj and police department, including traffic police.
“There is a huge shortage of teachers in the Basic education department. We tried to overcome this by appointing Shiksha Mitras but the government did not get desired result,” Chaudhry said. “So, we decided that BTC pass youth should be appointed. In some cases we relaxed the rules to fill the vacancies,” he said.
He said after filling of 15,000 posts of assistant teachers, a counselling session for filling 30,000 vacancies for science and maths teacher in government schools will begin. Besides, a decision has been taken to fill up 29,334 posts of assistant teachers of science and mathematics (in the schools being run by urban local bodies) by March 31.
The State selection commission is likely to advertise more than one lakh vacancies in various departments. These include over 30,000 posts. The process to fill them will begin soon. More than 10,000 vacancies in the Employment and Training and Revenue Departments will also be filled. The CM’s office has already asked various major departments to submit information about the total number of vacancies, the posts advertised or to be advertised along with the last date for submission of applications.
“We are collecting information from major departments about the steps taken to fill up the vacancies. It is difficult to ascertain the actual number of posts,” said a senior officer. The state government has also asked the panchayat raj department to begin the process of filling up 26,000 posts of village panchayat officers. At the same time, the state revenue department has been asked to fill up nearly 6,000 posts of ‘lekhpal’ soon.
Various public sector undertakings (PSUs) are also in the process of filling up the vacant posts on the lines of the recruitment drive being launched by various departments. Sources said the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation limited ( UPPCl), Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporations (UPSRTC) and some other PSUs are in the final phases of launching a similar drive.