શિક્ષકોમાં આનંદો: શિક્ષણમંત્રીની જાહેરાત

The Gujarat government has protected the newly appointed teachers in the subsidized schools from becoming redundant. Today, Gujarat Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama has announced that,

Any newly appointed subsidized secondary or higher secondary school teacher-employee will not face the question of losing a job due to class-school closure.

The Education Minister added that the state government led by Chief Minister Shri Vijaybhai Rupani and Deputy Chief Minister Nitinbhai Patel has taken various decisions in the interest of teachers and staff. In view of the representations made by these teachers and staff, the sensitive Chief Minister of the state has taken this decision in the interest of one more teacher.

The minister added that as a result of this decision, if a vacant teacher is appointed instead of re-appointing to fill the vacancy, the lengthy process of filling the vacancy will be avoided and the trained experienced teacher will be given the job and the schools will get experienced teachers quickly. Teachers who want to change schools will be able to take advantage of this provision and go to their desired school as there is a provision for recruitment of old teachers for the teachers who are currently on duty. As such, permanent protection will not be abused to obtain an appointment near / far from a distant place as an alternative to transfer.

He added that due to non-protection of surplus, teachers of subsidized secondary and higher secondary schools are recruited in government secondary and higher secondary schools. Doing so deprives students of non-government aided schools of teachers.

 As many as 50 teachers from subsidized schools have resigned in the recent recruitment of government higher secondary education assistants. Giving permanent protection to teachers in vacancies will not impose any new financial burden on the state government when they are made redundant and relocated.

The decision will benefit about 70,000 state-funded secondary and higher secondary school teachers.