Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu today said that the state government is committed to appoint at least 20,000 teachers in the state by May 10 this year.
Pegu said, “The state government is committed to appoint 20,000 teachers in the state by May 10 this year and this is under the state government’s ‘Mission 1 Lakh Jobs’ campaign.” ANI.
“There are vacancies in different levels – lower primary, upper primary, secondary and postgraduate teachers, assistant teachers and overall it comes to around 20,000 posts. We have released advertisements for all these posts. All the posts have been released and the appointments will start as soon as the merit list is released.
Now the work of document verification is going on for the teachers of Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Secondary. After its completion, the merit list will appear and the government will start giving appointments. This is under the ‘Mission 1 Lakh Jobs’ campaign of the Government of Assam and will be completed by May 10 this year.”
Talking about the new education policy decided by the Center in 2020, the minister said that the government has started implementing it.
“We have already started the implementation of the New Education Policy in the State. The New Education Policy is a comprehensive framework of a new education system under which we have already notified that our Directorate of School Education will be of two schooling in elementary education and Secondary education. From 2022-23, we will start separating class 11th and 12th from colleges and colleges will be only for degree and post graduate courses.”
,ANI. with inputs
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