Delhi government asks schools to involve all the guest teachers

Schools are asked by the Delhi government to engage the services of all guest teachers who had been hired in the last academic session.

Delhi government directed its schools to engage the services of all guest teachers who had been hired in the last academic session. The news came as a relief to hundreds of guest teachers. Various media reports suggest that there has been uncertainty over the engagement of the 20,000 odd guest teachers, who are paid per day of work since schools were closed considering the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation.

An official order released by the Directorate of Education (DoE) said, “The heads of government schools were earlier authorised to call 50 per cent teaching and non-teaching staff from September 21 for smooth running of teaching, learning and assessment activities, for online teaching and tele counselling and other related work."

The order further added, “Hence, in order to ensure smooth functioning of schools, all heads of government schools are hereby directed to engage all such guest teachers (except non-CTET) who were engaged during the last academic session, subject to the availability of vacancy in their schools, within three days positively."

Earlier, in the month of July, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia had said guest teachers would be re-engaged as part of the remote teaching-learning plan.

Directions are issued by the education department to all heads of schools to “engage willing guest teachers and contract teachers, wherever required, for online teaching-learning activities”.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on September 30 released the guidelines for Unlock 5. According to the guidelines, schools, colleges and educational institutions will continue to remain closed until October 15. 

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