The Directorate of Education has decided to appoint 88 government primary school teachers purely on contract basis in place of teachers who are on leave.
Briefing media at Porvorim, Director of Education Shailesh Zingade stated that the vacant posts will be on contract basis and candidates possessing the requisite qualification are required to submit their applications at respective talukas from November 7.
Officials will then scrutinise these applications and refer the candidates fulfilling the criteria to the Director of Education for skill test which will be conducted at Porvorim.
Zingade also said mentioned that there is no reservation for the aforesaid teachers posts.
“There are altogether 88 leave vacancies and these are purely temporary. It can be for 3 to 5 months. Whenever a teacher in a school goes on maternity leave or child care leave etc, these posts will be filled up. The moment regular teacher resumes duty the leave vacancy will cease to exist,” said Zingade.
Apart from aforesaid 88 temporary vacancies, he said that the process of recruiting 142 teachers on permanent basis has begun and the same will be completed soon.
Regarding the implementation of New Education Policy, Zingade said the Task Force Committee has submitted their preliminary report to Chief Minister and the final report will be submitted shortly.
Once this report is accepted, the Education department will implement the new education policy, he said.
