Results of old selection yet to be announced, but new recruitments planned!
Very recently, on 10th June 2015, the Delhi government has implemented a draft policy for “guest teachers” who’ve been working at their posts for years together.
Results of old selection yet to be announced, but new recruitments planned!
Very recently, on 10th June 2015, the Delhi government has implemented a draft policy for “guest teachers” who’ve been working at their posts for years together. The conditions for making the services of the guest teachers permanent have been mentioned in this policy, according to which those guest teachers who have worked for more than 90 days during the period 2012-14 must pass an examination for being made permanent. The onus of conducting the examination has been entrusted to the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB). This board has the responsibility of filling up vacancies in the government schools.
It is significant that before the elections in Delhi earlier this year, the Aam Aadmi party (AAP) had promised to make the services of all teachers in government schools permanent.
When the recruitment that is the job of the education department was handed over to the DSSSB, the teachers objected saying that the government is going back on its promise by organising an examination, because the recruitments being conducted by DSSSB have been stuck for years. Candidates keep waiting for the results and in the process their ages cross the limits set for the respective posts. Many candidates have demonstrated several times asking for the results to be declared, but both the board (DSSSB) as well as the Delhi government have turned a deaf ear to them.
Guest teacher Mr Hemant Mittal says that by talking of an examination to make them permanent, the government is raising a question on the ability and suitability of teachers who have been carrying out their duties for 4 to 5 years now. Precisely because the DSSSB was not able to carry out the recruitment process on time, the government had appointed so many guest teachers to fill up the vacancies in government schools. The question now arises, why was the education system being run by such ‘incompetent’ teachers? If the teachers are indeed ‘incompetent’, why was the future of so many students in the government schools jeopardised?
Guest teacher Ms Archana said that Delhi has as many as 15,000 guest teachers. The step of the Delhi government – of arranging examinations for confirming services – was a betrayal of the promises made to the guest teachers. The Delhi government had made the services of temporary teachers permanent in the year `1997 – 98; so why is the present government not doing so?
Guest teachers are united in their opinion – that the Delhi government must declare the results of old recruitments and adopt an appropriate policy to make the services of guest teachers permanent, so that the rights of teachers who have been serving in government schools may be secured.
Emphasis is being placed on privatisation in the education system of the country today. The policies of liberalisation, globalisation and privatisation that were ushered into the country in the year 1991 have also been implemented in the field of education. The level of education has been allowed to deteriorate very deliberately. Vacant positions in government schools are not being filled. Such schools always lack basic facilities. In place of permanently employed teachers, teachers on contract are being appointed. They are paid very low wages compared to the permanent ones. This is true not only of the Delhi government; it is true all over the country. Many governments have come into office in all the states in the intervening period, but no one has conceded the demands of the struggling teachers.
Mazdoor Ekta Lehar supports the demands of the thousands of young guest teachers of Delhi that they be made permanent.