Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath to issue job letters to 436 teachers

LUCKNOW: Under the ‘Mission Rozgar’, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will distribute appointment letters among 436 candidates selected for posts of assistant and associate teachers and lecturers in government secondary schools virtually from his official residence here on Tuesday.
The CM will also interact with newly appointed staff. The programme will be held at the CM’s residence.
The candidates will be issued online appointment letters and posting orders containing photographs through the website developed in collaboration with the National Informatics Centre.
According to secondary education director Vinay Kumar Pandey, 114 female and 24 male candidates have been selected for the post of assistant teacher for arts stream in government schools. Apart from this, 298 candidates, 189 women and 109 men have been chosen as lecturers. Among this, highest of 55 lecturers are appointed for Hindi subject followed by 45 in English subject. As many as 26 teachers are appointed for history, 24 each for economics and civics, 23 for chemistry and 22 for physics.
Pandey informed newspersons that for the first time on the CM’s order newly appointed teachers are being given the facility to select options of schools in order of their online preferences. Online appointment letters will be issued to selected teachers based on their choice of order of preference.
In the recruitment process, the first preference is being given to the selected candidates in the physically disabled category. Such candidates will get appointments in the highest priority schools. Similarly, married women candidates whose children are autistic or are 40% disabled and whose spouse is posted in defence services (Indian Army/Air Force/Navy or Central Paramilitary Forces), or widowed women/widower who have not remarried, and are single parents and whose spouses are employed in state or aided schools, council schools, state or central universities and state or semi-government services falling under basic, secondary and higher education will also be given preference in the posting.
On the occasion, the CM will interact with newly appointed teachers through video-conferencing in the presence of deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma and state minister for secondary education Gulab Devi.
In all, 3,317 teachers were given job offers for secondary schools by the CM on October 23.