23 Aug ; In a bid to streamline school education in the state, the Punjab govt has decided to recruit 10,810 new teachers in secondary schools and fill other vacancies in the sector within the next three months.
The decision was among several others taken at a review meeting of the Education (schools) Department chaired by the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at Chandigarh on Saturday, his media advisor Harcharan Bains said on Sunday.
Badal has ordered that the recruitment process to fill the vacancies for teachers in secondary schools and headmasters and principals in others be started immediately so that it could be completed within the next three months.
Providing requisite infrastructure including building, labs, libraries and laboratory equipment to all the schools in the state was also among the decisions taken at the meeting, Bains said, adding that 590 middle schools and 69 Primary schools would be constructed in various districts during the current year.
In addition 1833 additional classrooms, 21 model schools and an equal number of girls’ hostels would be constructed in 21 educationally backward blocks in seven districts during the current fiscal.
The Chief Minister also stressed on the need for regular monitoring and inspection of schools to improve the quality of education in government schools.
Punjab govt not to re-employ retired employees: Badal
The Punjab govt has decided to “discourage” the practice of giving extensions and re-employment to the retired govt personnel and said preference should be given to the unemployed youth.
In a statement after a meeting with a delegation of the Employees Wing of the Shiromani Akali Dal at Chandigarh on Saturday, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said the rule can be bent only in “extraordinary” circumstances and “non-availability” of experts with “rare” talent in a specialised field.
Badal also directed the state Chief Secretary to work out modalities to regularise the services of nearly 3,500 daily wagers, majority of whom were in the departments of public health, PWD, PSEB and education.
He also asked the personnel department to re-deploy the employees in the Cooperative Banks, who had been rendered “surplus” due to the winding up of the cooperative sugar mills in the state.