Granted secondary-higher secondary school teachers-staff will not have to lose jobs due to class-school closure, 70 thousand teachers will benefit
Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said that the state government has taken an important decision to provide permanent protection to all teachers and staff of state-funded secondary and higher secondary schools as redundant. From now on, 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.
Giving more details in this regard, the Education Minister said that recruitment of teachers in non-government aided secondary and higher secondary schools has been done on a centralized basis since 2011. The decision has been taken to have the same recruitment process, TAT examination, qualification, salary scale as well as performance of teachers in government secondary and higher secondary schools and subsidized secondary and higher secondary schools. As teachers appointed in subsidized secondary and higher secondary schools lose their jobs due to lack of surplus protection, such teachers are constantly working under the guise of insecurity, which may have a direct impact on the quality of teaching work. This decision will result in better quality and performance of education.
The Education Minister added that as a result of this decision, if a vacant teacher is appointed instead of re-appointing to fill the vacancy, the long 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.