Nagpur : Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, on Thursday, launched the first mega-recruitment advertisement on Pavitra Portal to recruit 10,001 teachers in primary, middle, secondary schools. These teachers will be mostly appointed in Private aided-schools through a transparent process. State Education Minister Vinod Tawde, Additional Chief Secretary (Education) Vandana Krishna, Director (Education) Vishal Solanki and others were present.
In this phase, out of 10,001 posts, 1,704 posts will be reserved for SC candidates, 2,147 posts are kept for ST, 525 for ST (PESA), 407 for VJ, 240 for NTB, 240 for NTC, 199 for NTD, 1,712 for OBC, 540 for Economically Weaker Section, 209 are kept for Special Backward Class candidates while 1,154 posts are for Socially and Educationally Backward Class category candidates. For general category candidates only 924 posts are available.
Due to reconciliation of excess teachers already appointed, the number of teaching vacancies came down by over 5,000. In six districts, after roster finalisation, the number of vacant seats has come down for general, SEBC and EBC categories and same will be increased after finalising the roster.
The Education department has allowed aided-school managements to select teachers of their choice, from the short-listed meritorious candidates finalised by Pavitra Portal. A common merit list will be prepared medium-wise, subject-wise and category-wise and institution can advertise their posts independently and invite candidates in 1:10 ratio for final selection. The process is not applicable to self-financed, permanently unaided schools and those having minority status. Initially, the advertisement will be accessible only to school management and education officers and will be published in newspapers on March 2.
Simultaneously, it will be available on Pavitra Portal for aspirants as well. The final selection will be on the basis of marks obtained in aptitude test and personal interview conducted at school-level. The schools not recruiting Shikshan Sevak as per this latest procedure, will not get any salary or non-salary grant.
The State Education department was forced to allow the managements to have their primacy in appointment of teachers of their choice following a decision of Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court dated November 21 which partially modified the appointment process finalised by the Government.
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