Soon, board for primary teachers’ recruitment

The state government has set the ball rolling for constituting a separate board for recruitment of teachers in primary and upper primary schools to ensure transparency in selection process. The new body, Basic Education Service Selection Board, will carry out recruitments in around 1 lakh primary and 60,000 upper primary schools in Uttar Pradesh. Till now, the recruitments were being carried out by UP Basic Education Board, Allahabad, which used to be the regulatory authority while the basic shiksha adhikaris (BSAs) acted as appointing authority in districts.

The state government has set the ball rolling for constituting a separate board for recruitment of teachers in primary and upper primary schools to ensure transparency in selection process.

The new body, Basic Education Service Selection Board, will carry out recruitments in around 1 lakh primary and 60,000 upper primary schools in UP.

Till now, the recruitments were being carried out by UP Basic Education Board, Allahabad, which used to be the regulatory authority while the BSAs acted as appointing authority in districts. The state government has formed a four-member panel and has asked it to prepare the draft of the UP Basic Education Service Selection Board Ordinance-2017 by May 12.

The panel is headed by director of literacy and alternative education Awadh Naresh Sharma and will have additional director (basic), camp office Lucknow, Neena Srivastava as member secretary and convener. The other two members of the committee are deputy secretary, Basic Education Board, Allahabad, Skand Shukla and senior expert, Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan, Lucknow, Om Prakash Tripathi. The panel held its first meeting in Lucknow.

A senior official at the education department said the government was planning to get the ordinance passed by the state assembly at the earliest so that recruitment of teachers could be initiated on priority. Recruitment of teachers in the past has been mired by allegations of corruption and irregularities leading to a number of litigations that prevented primary schools from getting new teachers.