Hourly based teachers’ temporary arrangement, recruitment process of 15000 regular posts underway: Rohit Thakur
Education Minister Rohit Thakur in a press statement issued here today clarified that the decision of recruiting hourly-based teachers was a temporary arrangement. The State Government has introduced this measure solely to address the absence of regular subject teachers during their leave.
He said that these teachers would be engaged on a period basis, with their services required for a maximum of ten days per month. This initiative aims to ensure that the education of the students was not disrupted due to the leave of any regular teacher. He further assured that this arrangement would not impact the recruitment of regular teachers within the department.
The Minister said that the present state government was committed to fill teaching vacancies through a direct recruitment process. He said that the state government was recruiting 15,000 personnel across various categories in the Education Department, with over 3,000 teachers already appointed. The remaining recruitment process was ongoing. He said that the opposition leaders were unnecessarily creating a hue and cry and flaring up the issue of teacher recruitment and before making any statement the opposition should reflect on their own tenure during which no recruitment of teachers was undertaken. This failure severely impacted the quality of education in the state, disrupted the studies and had significantly lowered academic standards.
He particularly pointed out that the opposition leader Jai Ram Thakur focused solely on announcing new institutions or upgrading existing ones during his tenure without allocating adequate budgets or ensuring the availability of necessary staff to run these institutions. These measures were politically motivated aimed at reaping benefits during the Vidhan Sabha elections. However, the people of the state rejected such hollow initiatives and instead gave a massive mandate to the congress government reaffirming their trust in its policies and programmes.
Highlighting the consequences of the previous government’s mismanagement, Rohit Thakur said that education standards in Himachal Pradesh deteriorated to such an extent that the state slipped to the 21st rank nationally. He said that Jai Ram Thakur owes an apology to the people of the state for the flawed policies of his government which caused significant damage to the education sector.
Education Minister Rohit Thakur said that the unwavering commitment of the present government to improving the quality of education in government institutions was clearly visible. As part of this initiative, the state government was recruiting hourly-based teachers to ensure that the education of the students do not suffer. He said that until the process of regular teacher recruitment was completed principals would be authorised to appoint hourly based teachers.
Rohit Thakur said that once regular recruitment was finalised, there will be no need to recruit hourly based teachers. He further said that the Congress government has also filled vacant positions within the education department through promotions, whereas the previous BJP government failed to fill up the requisite posts and studies of the students suffered a lot.
