Delhi government has decided to create 9623 additional teaching posts for its schools across the national capital

 In a major decision, the Delhi government has decided to create 9623 additional teaching posts for its schools across the national capital. The annual expenditure to implement this decision will be around Rs 540 crore.

The proposal of the department of education has been cleared by the Delhi cabinet and the break-up of posts is as follows : 

Principals	Vice Principals	PGT		TGT	Physical Education Teachers	Drawing Teachers	Librarians	Lab Asstt.
25	365		4940	2933	860	256	38	206

This major decision will help in achieving the desired level of Teacher- Pupil ratio as per the RTE Act.

The online recruitment test will be held in the institutions/colleges having sufficient number of functional computer systems and necessary supporting infrastructure and the responsibility for  identification of appropriate & requisite number of  Test centres solely rests with EdCIL. The Test Centres will be located in NCR Region as sufficient number of such Computer equipped institutions are not available within Delhi.

It has been decided to recommend age relaxation and an additional weightage by way of marks for experience as a one-time measure to the candidates who served as guest/contract teachers in different categories under the Directorate of Education, provided they fulfil the terms & conditions as laid down in the Supreme Court of India judgement in the case of State of Karnataka and others VS Umadevi &others (civil 3595-3612 of 1999).

The department had been working following directions by the Chief Minister that the Directorate of Education may come-up with a proposal to give a fair opportunity to eligible Guest Teachers and Contract teachers of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA) to enable them to appear for the open recruitment test without compromising on quality.

The Chief Minister had further suggested that candidates who worked as guest teachers and contract teachers of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA) in the previous years may be given age relaxation and weightage marks as a onetime measure by linking to the years of service rendered by them with appropriate conditions.

The annual additional financial burden on account of filling up of all the 9623 newly created posts will be about Rs. 540 crore under plan. During the current financial year, namely, 2015-16 an amount of Rs. 666 crore has been provided to meet the likely expenditure on account of existing as well as newly created posts.