These positions will come with benefits including the National Pension Scheme (NPS), government pay scales, yearly increments, and other advantages...
Digital Desk: The Assam cabinet has announced a special recruitment drive for 35,000 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) teachers to integrate them into government service. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma revealed this decision on Thursday, emphasizing that this move is necessary because the government is unable to regularize its positions directly.
"In order to give them some respite, the cabinet has decided to create 35,000 new jobs under the government. A special recruitment drive will be carried out, and only SSA teachers will be able to apply. Fresh candidates can apply for other regular positions," Sarma said.
Addressing the media after the cabinet meeting in Nalbari, the Assam chief minister explained that the state's Advocate General advised that, in line with the Supreme Court's directives in the Uma Devi case, the government cannot regularize jobs. "This power of the cabinet has been curtailed by the Supreme Court. As a result, we cannot regularize anyone's job," Sarma stated.
He further added that after the recruitment drive, the 35,000 positions under SSA will cease to exist. "When these 35,000 teachers are given recruitment, their vacant positions under SSA will be made non-existent," Sarma said.
SSA teachers will need to apply for this special recruitment, where their credentials will be verified before they are offered government jobs. These positions will come with benefits including the National Pension Scheme (NPS), government pay scales, yearly increments, and other advantages, providing much-needed security and stability for the SSA teachers.
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