The destiny of 110 higher secondary junior English teachers within the State stays unsure whilst teachers’ associations have known as for defending these posts as supernumerary and guaranteeing job security for the teachers.
In a press release right here on Sunday, the Kerala School Teachers Association (KSTA) State committee demanded that the 110 posts be protected as supernumerary, with none service break, and different advantages given to them.
The 110 posts are set to expire by the tip of this month.
The KSTA stated 63 teachers, who had secured appointment by the Kerala Public Service Commission however didn’t have satisfactory workload as per a employees fixation held after the federal government amended the situation for making a higher secondary junior instructor put up, had been retained in supernumerary posts.
Besides them, 47 teachers from a Higher Secondary School Teachers (junior) rank checklist that expired in 2016 and was later prolonged and who have been getting into service on the premise of a Supreme Court order have been additionally retained in supernumerary posts by the federal government on the premise of a Cabinet resolution in February. These teachers had additionally obtained recommendation memo from the PSC.
Following this, the Director of General Education issued an order that these posts would expire on March 31 and when common posts arose, these teachers could be reappointed.
Steps needs to be taken to retain teachers who entered service by the PSC, KSTA common secretary N.T. Sivarajan stated.
Recently, the Kerala Higher Secondary Teachers Union alleged that after the General Education division created the posts and made appointments, the Finance division refused to give its approval to them and a call was taken by the Cabinet to cancel them. Higher secondary teachers had approached the Kerala Administrative Tribunal towards the choice.
The KAT then noticed that the federal government order ignored the Supreme Court order.
KHSTU common secretary Panakkad Abdul Jaleel demanded that instructor posts be created by March 31 and their job security ensured.
