Teachers posts vacant

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JUNE 19.

Posts of around 2,000 Trained Graduate Teachers (TGTs) and Language Teachers (LTs) are lying vacant in various schools run by the Delhi Government and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

The Education Directorate of the State Government admitted this before the Delhi High Court in an affidavit.

The affidavit, filed on a direction by a Division Bench comprising Mr. Justice Anil Dev Singh and Mr. Justice O.P. Duivedi said that about 2,000 posts of TGTs and LTs were vacant against the sanctioned staff of 24,370.

The State Sub-ordinate Selection Board (SSSB) had started the process for direct recruit of 578 teachers but filling of 595 posts of TGTs and LTs through promotion had been held back due to a stay by the High Court.

The Directorate hoped that if the stay was vacated and the direct recruitment is completed, the shortage would be reduced considerably, the affidavit said.

The affidavit further said that 229 posts of Principals, 307 of Vice-principals, 730 of Post-Graduate teachers, 342 of Assistant Teachers and 454 of other categories of teachers were lying vacant.

The Bench had sought details of the staff position when a non- governmental organisation, through a public interest litigation (PIL), drew its attention to the paucity of teaching staff, particularly in resettlement colonies.

The affidavit said that the sluggish selection process by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and the SSSB was responsible for the inadequacy of the teaching staff.

The PIL filed Mr. Ashok Aggarwal, an advocate, urged the court to recruit special teachers for the schools for physically challenged children.

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