Shiksha mitras to graduate to teachers

Updated on: Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The Mayawati government approved certain proposals catering to the social sector on Monday. The state gave green signal to regularization of the services of 1.24 lakh para-teachers in the state, besides appointing teachers on contract basis in around 70 boarding schools for children of Scheduled Tribes (STs).

The cabinet approval paved way for regularising services of over 1,24,000 shiksha mitras (para-teachers) deployed in primary schools in villages and towns across the state. These shiksha mitra will now have to undergo two-year training as per the guidelines of the national teachers' education board, formed for implementation of the Right to Education Act. The training will be held through distance education programme. Resource centres will be established across the state for training shiksha mitras. Those qualifying the examination after the training will be inducted as teachers in the primary schools. The process to regularise over 62,000 shiksha mitras will begin soon, while for a second lot of around 62,000 shiksha mitras the process will be held after two years. The target is to regularise services of all the shiksha mitras by June 2015. District magistrates will constitute a three-member committee to select shiksha mitras eligible for training in their respective districts.

Further, the cabinet approved the proposal to fill the vacant teaching posts in the boarding schools across the state run by social welfare department for the children coming from ST families. The posts will be filled on contract basis. Total vacant posts are 1,189. There are 65 such schools imparting education from Class I to XII with a capacity of 31,200 in the state. Besides, there are two schools till Class V having capacity of 300 students. Eleven new such schools will be opened in the current financial year.

The cabinet also approved salary scales recommended by the sixth pay commission for teachers and vice-chancellor of Deendayal Upadhyay Veterinary Science University, Mathura. The proposal to provide salaries to the faculty of Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya Institute of Medical Sciences at par with the SPGIMS was also approved.

Times of India

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