Tuesday, December 30, 2008

UP Govt to appoint 56,000 Primary Teachers

Lucknow: The Government of Uttar Pradesh will soon appoint around 56,000 primary teachers to ensure qualitative improvement in basic education, it was announced here recently.

All officials have been directed by Chief Minister Mayawati, to start the process of recruiting nearly 56,000 primary teachers and make fresh appointments against 10,000 teachers who retire every year.

"The fresh appointments will begin from January 2009. The retired teachers will be re-employed on a contractual basis", a Government spokesperson informed.

Satish Chandra Mishra, Chairman of the State Advisory Counci has been asked to review the quality of primary and secondary education in the state.

The progress of various schemes had been reviewed in a meeting of the council held on Sunday and the same was intimated to the Chief Minister.

In the meeting, it was pointed out that 1.56 lakh posts of teachers are lying vacant, against which the exercise to fill at least 88,000 teaching posts was under progress.

The Chief Minister has directed that recruitment of teachers should be a continuous process to ensure that 10,000 teachers, who retire every year, could be replaced immediately.

Mayawati has also said that teachers be given computer-generated salary slips to weed out possibility of any discrepancy in their salaries.

Source: http://indiaedunews.net/Uttar_Pradesh/UP_Govt_to_appoint_56,000_Primary_Teachers_7011/

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