Irked by the recent protest, Delhi will hire new guest teacher “on merit”

The action was provoked by the recent protest staged by multitude of belligerent guest teacher against the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and education minister Manish Sisodia at the AAP mega show for salary hike.

Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal

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Just as predicted in the recent times, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that he won’t be able to help the guest teacher in the same spirit as before, the Delhi government has, of late, decided to invite fresh applications for hiring guest teachers from the next academic session.

The action was provoked by the recent protest staged by multitude of belligerent guest teacher against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and education minister Manish Sisodia at the AAP mega show for salary hike.

AAP government to fire guest teachers:

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who is also the education minister, expressed displeasure against the guest teachers citing, “regardless of getting benefits from the government, they have protest against the CM”.

The AAP government, in a fitting response, has changed its stand on an appointment of guest teachers wherein the government used to allow the already existing academic professionals to continue for the past two years.

“Government will invite fresh applications for guest teachers from March and hire them on merit,” an official said adding, “Despite the fact that the AAP dispensation is doing ”so much” for them, teachers are doing ”politics” which will not be tolerated.”

More on the news:

  • Earlier this month, the Chief Minister had announced a hike in salaries of Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET)-qualified teachers by up to 90 per cent. Also, it allowed non-CTET teachers to teach students, but from next session, it will not happen
  • The official also said that government will only allow CTET-qualified teachers to teach students in its schools
  • At present, there are about 15,000 teachers and 2,000 non-CTET guest teachers
  • After the protest on Wednesday, Kejriwal had held the BJP and Congress responsible for the fracas at Chhatrasal Stadium where the event was held in the afternoon
  • Addressing the gathering, comprising of guest teachers and heads of schools, the CM had said the final approval pertaining to the hike was pending before Lt Governor Najeeb Jung and he is ready to “snatch it” from him.
  • source”cnbc”