South Delhi Municipal Corporation schools to get 586 primary school teachers under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
This comes after Mayor Mukesh Suryan reached out to the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, stating that there was a “shortfall of 600 teachers”, which were to be “urgently filled with contractual teachers as a temporary measure”.
South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), Samagra Shiksha-Delhi has announced that in order to address the shortage of teaching staff at primary schools, 586 school teachers have been appointed on a contractual basis, under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).
This comes after Mayor Mukesh Suryan reached out to the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, stating that there was a “shortfall of 600 teachers”, which were to be “urgently filled with contractual teachers as a temporary measure”.
He further stated that all these teachers have been serving at SDMC schools since 2021 and could not be engaged during the pandemic.
"These teachers are under the SSA and they will have a regular renewal of their contracts, unlike previous instances where they had to wait and do multiple follow-ups,” he said in the letter as reported by Hindu.
At present, there are about three lakh students that are studying in SDMC schools.
Meanwhile, some of the SDMC schools heads while reacting to the decision said that they have been facing “bigger issues” and that the move “will not make any difference” to their situation.
A school official, on the basis of anonymity, said he faced a “massive” shortage of teachers for the “evening shift”.
“We have only 14 teachers handling the evening shift; there are 21 vacancies that need to be filled. I do not think we will get any teachers from the 586 that have been approved. These 586 teachers were serving on a contractual basis even before, except the lockdown period,” he said.
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