More than 17,000 seats are lying vacant in Odisha Schools. The school and Mass Education Minister Nityanand Gond said in the Assembly. Appointment of these teachers had earlier been stayed by the Orissa High Court.
The state government recently recruited 16,009 junior teachers who will be in elementary (primary and upper primary) schools, School and Mass Education minister Nityananda Gond said here on Wednesday.
Orientation programme will be held for the new teachers this week.
To fill these teacher position of teacher in Odisha schools the Odisha School Education Programme Authority (OSEPA) had decided to fill up junior teacher posts and held a computer-based test last year. It had released a draft merit list of 18, 805 candidates but some aspirants alleged irregularities in the test. Subsequently on January 19, the high court issued a stay on the appointments. However, in June, the HC upheld the OSEPA merit list and asked the government to recruit junior teachers on the basis of the list.
Over 17,000 Teacher Vacancies in Odisha’s Primary Schools Remain Unfilled
https://sme.odisha.gov.in/The empowered committee of the School and Mass Education department approved the recruitment of secondary teacher posts in government schools. For this it has asked the director of secondary education to collect information on vacancies from the district education officers.
It is up to the government decision on the number of posts to be filled up for recruitment during a year, the recruitment will be done by the Odisha Staff Selection Commission (OSSC).
The guidelines have been Issued for the recruitment process that selection will be made on the basis of performance of candidates in the competitive examination to be conducted by the OSSC. In case the number of applicants are high, OSSC will shortlist the candidates through any standard procedure