L-G approves revival of 126 posts in Delhi govt schools
Delhi lieutenant-governor V.K. Saxena has approved 126 posts of principals and deputy education officers in city government-run schools which had lapsed as these were “lying vacant” for more than two years, Raj Niwas officials said on Saturday.
The officials have alleged that the lapse has happened due to “apathy and inaction of the AAP government.”
Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, meanwhile in a statement, retorted that this claim was a “new bunch of lies” and a “blatant attempt to hide” the fact that the Central government and the L-G office have “stalled the appointment of principals in Delhi government schools for more than seven years.”
Earlier in the day, Raj Niwas officials had also said that the L-G has also put on hold a proposal to abolish 244 posts of principals and deputy education officers as “proposed by the city’s education department” since these posts had also been lying vacant for more than five years.
“In a move that would help the woefully shortstaffed education department of the Delhi government, especially at the cutting-edge level, L-G Saxena has approved the revival of 126 posts of principals and deputy education officers that had lapsed due to the fact that they were lying vacant for more than two years,” officials said.
The L-G has asked the education department to submit a suitable proposal for the abolition or creation of posts of a principal or deputy education officer “after getting the comprehensive study conducted from the AR department, as pointed out by the department,” official said.
Government rules provide for posts lying vacant for more than two years to be considered as “deemed abolished” and for those lying vacant for more than five years to be “considered abolished,” officials said.
These 370 posts (126 deemed abolished posts and 244 considered abolished posts) were supposed to have been filled in through promotion as per the Recruitment Rules by the Directorate of Education from the year 2013-14 to 2019, they said.
Mr Sisodia, in his statement issued by his office, also claimed that right after the formation of the AAP government in 2015, it had “approached the UPSC to fill 370 vacant posts of principals.”
“We urge the Hon’ble LG to stop playing dirty politics. First, he has stalled the foreign travel of teachers to attend training in Finland, and now he wants to abolish 244 posts of school principals under the false claim of reviving 126 posts,” he charged. services a senior