The State Government on Tuesday issued a resolution and notification for 62,896 para teachers. Now 62,896 para teachers will now be called assistant teachers. All the decisions and other activities related to these assistant teachers have been entrusted to the Panchayat head and Block Education Committee.
As per the Government's decision, their honorarium has also been increased, which will be applicable from January 1 of this year and they will remain in service for 60 years of their age.
In the applicable rules, these assistant teachers have been placed under the head of the Panchayat. The notification states that the primary assistant teachers appointed for classes one to five will be under the Panchayats. Their administrative cum disciplinary authority will be the Panchayat. The head of the Panchayat level authority will be the head. At the same time, the Administrative and disciplinary authority of the upper primary assistant teachers who are appointed for classes six to eight will be the Block Education Committee. The chairman of which will be the head of the Panchayat Samiti.