Fill 450 vacant principal posts, demands HP Teachers Assn

Our Correspondent

Nurpur, August 11

The Himachal Pradesh Teachers Association (HPTA) has submitted a demand charter to the state government through Education Minister Rohit Thakur.

Association president Virender Chauhan, in a press release issued here yesterday, said 450 posts of government senior secondary school principal across the state had been lying vacant for a long time.

As per a decision of the government, 250 of these posts were to be filled through promotions of school headmasters and the remaining 200 posts through promotions of school lecturers, he added.

He said after the state Education Department’s failure to fill vacant posts, 141 headmasters and 87 lecturers had retired from January to July this year without promotion.

Employees had been working at the same posts for 25 years, without availing any opportunity for departmental promotions, Chauhan added. He said the HPTA had demanded that the promotions to the posts of principal be granted under the prescribed quota.

“All principals are working on placement basis, due to which they are not getting any financial benefits. They should be regularised by giving lumpsum exemption through cabinet nod,” he added.

He said earlier, too, the principals had been regularised by lumpsum exemption through cabinet approval.

The association demanded that the vacant post of joint director and some posts of deputy director be filled on the basis of seniority.

It also called for the notification issued on July 7 this year by the department, which pertained to the relieving and joining of principals, to be cancelled.