GANGTOK, 23 Apr: Ad-hoc teachers working under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan [SSA] of the Human Resource Development Department [HRDD] teaching at schools across the state can now heave a sigh of relief as the HRD Department is now in process of issuing them their appointment orders for the current academic year. The appointment orders are to be issued by the end of next week.
The teachers could not be given their appointment orders earlier because of the election code of conduct that came into effect on 05 March in Sikkim, informed Principal Secretary, HRDD, Dr Thomas Chandy, while speaking to NOW! today. SSA being a Centrally Sponsored Scheme [CSS] under the Ministry of HRD, the Project Approval Board meeting was held on 06 March where it was decided to approach the Election Commission for relaxation to allow issuance of the appointment orders.
“We had tried to take the approval and had also written to the Election Commission but because of the model code of conduct we were advised by the ECI that the HRDD could not be given the approval but could do it after the polls were over in the state,” he stated. He added that the department had approached the ECI afresh after the elections and has now received the go ahead from the ECI and hence the appointment orders have already been approved and by the end of next week the orders would be issued to the teachers working in the various schools in the districts by the concerned Joint Directors [JDs].
By 01 May all the teachers will be posted in their respective schools, he informed.
He further stated that there are around 778 ad-hoc teachers working under the SSA and that these are mostly the same set of teachers who were employed by the department last year and the renewal of their employment is done on a yearly basis.
The teachers could not be given their appointment orders earlier because of the election code of conduct that came into effect on 05 March in Sikkim, informed Principal Secretary, HRDD, Dr Thomas Chandy, while speaking to NOW! today. SSA being a Centrally Sponsored Scheme [CSS] under the Ministry of HRD, the Project Approval Board meeting was held on 06 March where it was decided to approach the Election Commission for relaxation to allow issuance of the appointment orders.
“We had tried to take the approval and had also written to the Election Commission but because of the model code of conduct we were advised by the ECI that the HRDD could not be given the approval but could do it after the polls were over in the state,” he stated. He added that the department had approached the ECI afresh after the elections and has now received the go ahead from the ECI and hence the appointment orders have already been approved and by the end of next week the orders would be issued to the teachers working in the various schools in the districts by the concerned Joint Directors [JDs].
By 01 May all the teachers will be posted in their respective schools, he informed.
He further stated that there are around 778 ad-hoc teachers working under the SSA and that these are mostly the same set of teachers who were employed by the department last year and the renewal of their employment is done on a yearly basis.
