Vijayawada: All the vacant teacher posts in the state would be filled by the next academic year, Education Minister Nara Lokesh stated on Friday.
Speaking in the state Assembly on Friday, he pointed out that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu cleared the DSC file immediately after assuming charge. “The government aims to fill up all the vacant teacher posts without any legal tangles,” he said.
Lokesh promised to lift “all the false cases” pending against teachers, but after discussing the matter with the DGP. These cases, he said, had been registered by the previous government when the teachers staged dharnas to highlight their problems.
Replying to questions from MLAs Lokam Madhavi, Kakarla Suresh and Palla Srinivasa Rao, the education minister said the details of all the cases pending since 1994 have been collected. The government has decided to issue the DSC notification without any obstacles.
Informing the house that the file on increasing the age limit to the DSC aspirants is pending before the chief minister, Lokesh said, “Once the file is cleared, a decision will be taken on the relaxation of age limit.”
Before 1994, teacher recruitment was conducted by respective zilla parishads. After the Telugu Desam came to power, 15 DSCs were conducted to fill 1.8 lakh teacher vacancies.
“The YSR Congress government did not fill even a single vacant teacher post,” Lokesh said and added that a notification was issued by that government on February 12 last, “only to bluff the DSC aspirants.” This, he noted, came just two months before the assembly elections.
He said, "The commissioner of School Education is holding discussions with the teachers unions on this GO 117. We will come up with an alternative to GO-117."
Informing the House that an infrastructure monitoring management system would be introduced, Lokesh said he was confident of introducing “the AP-model of education” in the coming five years.
