4700 teachers to be engaged

JAMMU: In an effort to provide adequate teaching staff at government-run educational institutions, the Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet today approved engagement of over 4,700 lecturers and teachers on academic arrangements.

The cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, approved temporary engagement of 2,200 lecturers and 400 teachers under the upgradation programme on academic arrangement basis for the academic session 2018-19.

The arrangement will be made at an enhanced honorarium of Rs.14000/- per month and at the rate of Rs.10500/- for third/hard zone and Plain areas in respect of Lecturers for ten months in Higher Secondary Schools and Rs.7500/- per month and Rs.4500/- per month for 3rd/ Hard Zone and Plain Areas respectively in respect of Teachers for 10 months in upgraded High Schools. The academic arrangement will subsist till regular selections are made.

In addition, a spokesman said it also referred 2,154 posts of teachers to the Service Selection Board.
He said pending selection against the referred posts, the school education department would make academic arrangement for the session 2018-19 in respect of all the vacancies for all districts, except Jammu and Srinagar, where there is saturation of staff.

He said the move is to address the deficiency of teachers, especially in far-flung areas, and the academic arrangement would subsist till regular selections are made.

The cabinet observed that the school education department require putting in place a fool proof mechanism in place to ensure that academic arrangement against these posts of teachers is made in a most transparent manner.