LG agrees to grant age relaxation to 17000 Guest Teachers- Sh Bijender Gupta Meeting with LG

LG agrees to grant age relaxation to 17000 Guest Teachers- Sh Bijender Gupta Meeting with LG

Source : Bijender Gupta Facebook page

Delhi Government to be asked for free coaching to teachers to prepare for written examination

On selection, their experience would be counted in service

Lt. Governor, Sh. Najeeb Jung today conveyed his consent for giving age relaxation to Guest Teachers in their eligibility as teachers in the Delhi Government service. The 17,000 Guest Teachers have been agitating for this and other demands for a long time. The Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Vidhan Sabha, Sh. Vijender Gupta met LG today at Raj Bhawan requesting him to personally ensure that their legally tenable demands are settled at the earliest on humanitarian ground. The teachers have been demanding relaxed norms for their regularization. Sh. Gupta was accompanied by MLAs Sh. O.P. Sharma and Sh. Jagdish Pradhan.

LOP sought due weightage to teaching experience in Delhi Government service. LG informed that he and Dy. Chief Minister had agreed to refer the matter for legal opinion. LG agreed that on selection, their experience as guest teachers would be counted in their service. He, however, informed that Solicitor General has opined that it would not be legally tenable to count their experience before their selection as teachers on permanent basis. LOP suggested LG that Chief Minister should be asked to have an all party meet under his auspices to find out possibility of solution to this contentious issue. 

The Opposition Leader requested LG for free coaching of Guest Teachers so that they could be better equipped to take the written examination for regular jobs of teachers conducted by the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB). According to Mr. Gupta, LG agreed to the proposal. He assured that the Delhi Government would be directed to arrange for free coaching to Guest Teachers. He assured all help to the Guest Teachers in pursuing their career. 

Leader of Opposition urged LG that the services of 17 Guest Teachers whose services were terminated for participating in the protests, demonstration and dharnas highlighting their grievances during April must be regularized. There was nothing on record against these teachers till they participated in the demonstration. LG assured that he would ask the Delhi Government to sympathetically examine the matter.

Leader of Opposition along with other BJP MLAs met Lt. Governor to personally ensure on humanitarian ground that the matter is settled at the earliest.