Politics derails teachers' appointment

Sanjeev Kochhar / TNN / Nov 22, 2005, 02:41 IST

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It was politics which delayed the recruitment of some 13,000 teachers on contractual basis as a stop-gap arrangement.

CHANDIGARH: It was politics which delayed the recruitment of some 13,000 teachers on contractual basis as a stop-gap arrangement to fill up all vacant posts of teachers in Haryana government schools for the rest of the current academic year.
Politics has ensured that the plan is buried for good. Now the state government is preparing for regular recruitment of teachers for deployment from the next academic year.
Sources reveal that the Hooda government, which was at one time very keen on pushing ahead with the proposal so that the studies in the schools did not suffer for lack of adequate teacher strength, was finally forced to dump it having come under pressure from the Congress MLAs who felt that they would not be able to push their own candidates under the computerised merit lists which were to be drawn up by an independent agency for the recruitment.
The party legislators are learnt to have been pressing for a mechanism of recruitment which will leave room for favouritism so that they could push through their own favourites, a charge which the Congress lost no opportunity in levelling against the previous INLD regime led by Om Prakash Chautala.

Though the mode of recruitment for the regular appointments is yet to be decided by the state government, it is generally believed that the task will be handed over to the recently reconstituted Haryana Staff Selection Commission.
Another reason which is understood to have weighed on the mind of the Hooda government while shelving the plan for contractual teachers is that because of the numerous delays, the new recruits would have served only three months before making room for the regular recruits.

This would have proved politically inconvenient to the Hooda government which appears to be out to please all sections of the people.
The decision to recruit thousands of school teachers of various categories on contractual basis was taken by the government in June this year.
Their services were to be availed from July 1 this year to March 31 next so that studies of students did not suffer till the time regular recruitments took place.
But the government kept struggling with the recruitment process, having applied the brakes on several occasions in an apparent effort to maximise its political gains.
Having earlier vertically reserved 33 per cent posts of teachers for women, the Hooda government went on to reserve 50 per cent seats for those who had passed their matriculation examination while studying in a rural school in the state.
As if this was not enough, another 25 per cent posts were reserved for retrenched government employees.

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