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50 per cent teaching posts for rural candidates: Hooda

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Haryana Cabinet decision to enhance job opportunities

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Cabinet on Thursday decided to reserve 50 per cent direct recruitment teaching posts for those candidates who have passed Matric and 10 plus two from schools located in rural areas.

Addressing a press conference after the meeting, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the decision would enhance employment opportunities for the rural youth and the Education Department would be able to appoint teachers in rural areas.

The Cabinet also decided to fill 31 posts of civil judge (Junior Division) through a Selection Committee which will consist of three judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to be nominated by its Chief Justice.

It also decided to have functional integration of Primary Education and Secondary Education Departments to improve the supervisory structure.

Mr.Hooda said that all Government primary schools located on the campuses of middle, high and senior secondary schools would be made part of those very schools under the direct supervision of their respective heads. Primary schools, which were not located on the campus of any other school, but situated in the same village would also be brought under the control of the head of the middle or high or senior secondary school, as the case may be, in that village.

The remaining primary schools and independent middle schools would be under the control of the Block Education Officers whose post would be upgraded to the rank of Principal of a senior secondary school.

At the State level, the administration would also be restructured and the directorates would be functionally integrated. The integrated Directorate would be called Directorate of School Education. No additional post would be created and the existing posts would be suitably designated, utilised or transferred in the restructured Directorate.

The post of Director, Secondary Education, would be re-designated as Commissioner and Director-General of School Education. The posts of Director, Primary Education and State Project Director would be re-designated as Additional Commissioner School Education-cum-Director Elementary Education and Additional Commissioner School Education-cum-State Project Director.

They would function under the supervision, control and general guidance of the Commissioner and Director- General School Education. However, they would continue to enjoy statutory or executive powers.

The primary education wing of the School Education Department would be redesignated as Elementary Education Wing, he added.

The Cabinet also decided to provide a bonanza of fiscal and non-fiscal incentives to entrepreneurs who would set up their units in the petro-chemical hub at Panipat. The Government would provide interest-free loan quantified at 50 per cent of the tax paid on the sale of goods produced by the industrial units in the proposed Special Economic Zone (SEZ) or industrial park under the Haryana Value Added Tax for seven years from the start of commercial production.

Such units would be exempted from payment of Local Area Development Tax on capital goods like plant and machinery and maintenance spares. The Government also decided to accept the report of the Shetty Commission which had recommended the modification of pay scales of certain posts of non-judicial staff of the subordinate courts.

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