Teacher recruitment faces legal hurdle

Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has approved the proposal to increase the salary for Vidya Volunteers from 8,000 to 12,000, the Deputy Chief Minister says

​Hyderabad: Deputy Chief Minister Kadiyam Srihari said on Tuesday that the legal tangle may delay the process to fill the teachers’ vacancies. The government is taking advice from legal experts.

Speaking to the media, Srihari said the government would take steps to fill the vacancies in the universities and 1,061 posts out of 1,550 would be filled soon. Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had give his approval for the recruitment.

A total of 34 posts in Mahatma Gandhi University, 63 in Palamuru University, 40 in Satavahana University, 59 in Telangana University, 96 in Rajiv Gandhi University, 10 in Ambedkar University, seven in Potti Sriramulu University, 136 in Kakatiya University, 15 in JNTU Fine Arts College, 186 in JNTU, and 415 posts in Osmania University would be filled.

Srihari said Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had approved the appointment of Vidya Volunteers and hiked the salary for them from existing Rs 8,000 to Rs 12,000 a month.

The District Collectors would soon take steps to appoint the Vidya Volunteers. The Chief Minister had also agreed to release Rs 420 crore to strengthen the universities and colleges by providing infrastructure and facilities. The government was planning to launch 34 Kasturba Gandhi Vidyalayas in districts out of 84 schools approved by the Centre.

He said a total of Rs 2.70 crore was released. It was also decided to extend education facility to the street children and orphans by setting up residential schools in every district with the funds provided by the Centre.

Hyderabad and Khammam districts had already started these schools and they would be established in remaining districts soon, he said.