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Time of India
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Teachers to be posted in Eng medium schools ‘within a wk'
1 2 J aipur: In a meeting with govt school teachers held Sunday, officials said allotment of English-medium schools in every district for teachers will be completed within one week. After recruitment in Aug last year, selected candidates have been waiting for postings in English-medium schools. Teachers, under the banner of Rajasthan Shikshak Sangh (Rashtriya), held talks with the education secretary and the director of secondary education regarding 25 points. In the meeting, consensus was reached on many demands, including giving posting to teachers in Mahatma Gandhi English Medium Govt schools within a week and Vivekananda Model Schools this month. Along with this, officials agreed to work on removing salary discrepancies, reducing the burden of non-educational work of teachers, and holding district-level educational conferences in Sept and state-level educational conferences in Nov. Ramesh Chandra Pushkarna, president of the organisation, said, "In the meeting, many demands were put forward, including starting Balvatika in 19,500 schools and keeping a minimum of 5 posts of Grade-II category teachers intact, including Hindi, English, and Social Science, in the new staffing pattern for secondary education. Along with this, discussions were held on filling 15,000 out of 38,000 new posts as per the staffing pattern in this session itself. " On the transfer of teachers, education secretary Krishna Kunal said it will be started as soon as the chief minister gives permission. In the meeting teachers also raised the issue of difficulty in mandatory Aadhaar and Jan Adhaar verification for generating APAAR IDs of students along with other schemes in rural areas. An agreement was reached on organizing time-bound camps at the district level to resolve such problems.
Time of India
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Teachers demand probe into removal of religious symbols
Jaipur: Govt school teachers under the banner of Rajasthan Shikshak Sangh (Rashtriya) have written to chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, demanding an inquiry into the removal of religious and cultural symbols from the Shiksha Sankul premises. A delegation of teachers met the director of state open school, Ashish Modi, Tuesday, who assured that an investigation will be conducted into this teachers alleged that posters and images of Hindu deities, displayed at the Rajasthan State Open School building to mark the Hindu New Year—also observed as Rajasthan Foundation Day—were taken down and discarded, hurting the religious sentiments of staff and teachers."Inspired by the chief minister's historic announcement to celebrate the Hindu New Year as Rajasthan Foundation Day on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, the staff decorated the building with stickers and posters featuring Lord Brahma, Lord Shri Ram, the 'Om' symbol, Varunavatar, Saint Jhulelal, Swami Dayanand Saraswati, Maharishi Gautam, Sikh Guru Angad Dev Ji, and Sangh founder Dr Hedgewar," said Mahendra Lakhara, general secretary of the Pushkarna, state president of the association, said that images of Hindu gods are being removed, while there is a 'namaz room' in Rajasthan Madarsa Board Bhawan, which is in the Shiksha Sankul on Monday, Satish Gupta, OSD to education minister Madan Dilawar, said the matter would be investigated.
