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Clearance sought for appointment of craft teachers

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The Government to reverse the February 2000 order

GULBARGA: Primary and Higher Secondary Education Minister Basavaraj Horatti said on Sunday that the State Government had decided to reverse the order issued in February 2000 which abolished the posts of the drawing and crafts teachers in high schools.

Speaking to presspersons here, Mr. Horatti said that the Education Department had sought the clearance of the Finance Department to start recruiting 2,000 drawing and crafts teachers at the cluster level schools. The Government had also decided to regularise these teachers who were appointed prior to the February 2000 order in the aided schools. The drawing and craft teachers working in the unaided schools which had been brought under the aided school network were also being regularised. Referring to the demand that age restrictions be relaxed while recruiting high school teachers, Mr.Horatti said there was no such proposal since the over-age problem among unemployed teachers of high schools was not as severe as in primary schools.

Mr. Horatti said that by the end of May more than 29,000 teachers had been appointed in primary and high schools and junior colleges, after the Janata Dal(S)-BJP coalition Government came to power, and appointment of another 5,000 teachers on age-cum-merit basis in the primary schools was now being taken up.

In primary schools alone, 15,000 teachers had been appointed and approval for recruiting another 5,000 teachers was awaited from the Finance Department, he added.

He said that the education adalats held in Belgaum Division to hear the grievances of the staff and the general public had been a tremendous success and 70 per cent of the decisions taken there had already been implemented and remaining decisions were in the process of being implemented

He said that a similar adalat would be held in Gulbarga Division on Monday.

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