Teachers to be posted in Eng medium schools ‘within a wk'

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aipur: In a meeting with govt school teachers held Sunday, officials said allotment of English-medium schools in every district for teachers will be completed within one week.
After recruitment in Aug last year, selected candidates have been waiting for postings in English-medium schools.
Teachers, under the banner of Rajasthan Shikshak Sangh (Rashtriya), held talks with the education secretary and the director of secondary education regarding 25 points. In the meeting, consensus was reached on many demands, including giving posting to teachers in Mahatma Gandhi English Medium Govt schools within a week and Vivekananda Model Schools this month.
Along with this, officials agreed to work on removing salary discrepancies, reducing the burden of non-educational work of teachers, and holding district-level educational conferences in Sept and state-level educational conferences in Nov.
Ramesh Chandra Pushkarna, president of the organisation, said, "In the meeting, many demands were put forward, including starting Balvatika in 19,500 schools and keeping a minimum of 5 posts of Grade-II category teachers intact, including Hindi, English, and Social Science, in the new staffing pattern for secondary education.
Along with this, discussions were held on filling 15,000 out of 38,000 new posts as per the staffing pattern in this session itself.
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On the transfer of teachers, education secretary Krishna Kunal said it will be started as soon as the chief minister gives permission.
In the meeting teachers also raised the issue of difficulty in mandatory Aadhaar and Jan Adhaar verification for generating APAAR IDs of students along with other schemes in rural areas. An agreement was reached on organizing time-bound camps at the district level to resolve such problems.

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