VELLORE: The Pernambut Consumer Welfare Protection Society has appealed to the State government to dispense with the usual counselling process which will hasten the appointment of teachers to rural schools, as vacancies have remained unfilled for long.
The president of the Society, T Basheeruddin said that while counselling for new appointments and transfers of teachers takes place every year, many teachers avoid those rural schools with a high student-population resulting in near-permanent vacancies.
“This greatly affects the performance of the students and their learning capacity,” he pointed out.
Basheeruddin added, “the State government, in order to fill up vacancies in such schools, should appoint a percentage of teachers directly without counselling.”
These teachers should not be allowed to transfer for a minimum period of three years, Basheeruddin suggested.
The State government should also resort to the earlier practice of allowing the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) in schools to appoint eligible PG and UG teachers to fill up vacancies without waiting for the government to recruit them.
The teachers appointed by the PTA should be paid by the government, he added.
