New board to recruit teachers and principals
By Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Saturday, July 03, 2010 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article§name=News%20-%20City§id=3&contentid=2010070320100703020107585ac054bcd)
To root out corruption, avoid partiality in recruitments and ensure that qualified persons get recruited in government and grant-in aid secondary and higher secondary schools, the state government has decided to set up a recruitment board.
The state government has given approval for the filling up of around 5,000 vacancies for teachers, principals, clerks and peons in these schools. The Commissioner of Schools will be the Chairman of the recruitment board. District education officers (DEO) will collect data of vacancies in their jurisdiction and send it to the chairman.
The board will create a website that will display all the vacancies. And applicants can file their applications for any post online.Vacancies as per the subject, school, area will be put up online, which will make it easier for an applicant to choose the school and place of his choice.
Once the applications are filed, applicants will be called for document verification. Thirty per cent weightage will be given to experience for all posts. Teachers or principals applying for a post will have to compulsorily take two tests. The tests will be of a total of 200 marks, of which 100 will be subject-related and other 100 marks will be for general knowledge. Both will be of objective type and will carry 70 per cent weightage in recruitment.
The entire admission process will be centralised. A panel of eminent members will be set up, which will keep a tab on recruitments and maintain transparency in the whole affair.
Gujarat Schools Management Association President Ambubhai Patel has objected to the setting up of the board. Patel said, “The government has neither built our school building, nor provided finances to build it. Employing people in our school is the school management’s prerogative, which the government cannot grab.”
General secretary of the association J K Mankadia said, “Our civil application is pending in the Supreme Court. At such a time, the government shouldn’t take any decision. We will hold a meeting of members across the state and decide on our course of action.”
Dr Hasmukh Adhia, principal secretary (education), said, “I don’t see any reason for objection. We will make it totally transparent, so that the question of corruption doesn’t arise.”
Posted On Saturday, July 03, 2010 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article§name=News%20-%20City§id=3&contentid=2010070320100703020107585ac054bcd)
To root out corruption, avoid partiality in recruitments and ensure that qualified persons get recruited in government and grant-in aid secondary and higher secondary schools, the state government has decided to set up a recruitment board.
The state government has given approval for the filling up of around 5,000 vacancies for teachers, principals, clerks and peons in these schools. The Commissioner of Schools will be the Chairman of the recruitment board. District education officers (DEO) will collect data of vacancies in their jurisdiction and send it to the chairman.
The board will create a website that will display all the vacancies. And applicants can file their applications for any post online.Vacancies as per the subject, school, area will be put up online, which will make it easier for an applicant to choose the school and place of his choice.
Once the applications are filed, applicants will be called for document verification. Thirty per cent weightage will be given to experience for all posts. Teachers or principals applying for a post will have to compulsorily take two tests. The tests will be of a total of 200 marks, of which 100 will be subject-related and other 100 marks will be for general knowledge. Both will be of objective type and will carry 70 per cent weightage in recruitment.
The entire admission process will be centralised. A panel of eminent members will be set up, which will keep a tab on recruitments and maintain transparency in the whole affair.
Gujarat Schools Management Association President Ambubhai Patel has objected to the setting up of the board. Patel said, “The government has neither built our school building, nor provided finances to build it. Employing people in our school is the school management’s prerogative, which the government cannot grab.”
General secretary of the association J K Mankadia said, “Our civil application is pending in the Supreme Court. At such a time, the government shouldn’t take any decision. We will hold a meeting of members across the state and decide on our course of action.”
Dr Hasmukh Adhia, principal secretary (education), said, “I don’t see any reason for objection. We will make it totally transparent, so that the question of corruption doesn’t arise.”
