Maharashtra clears non-teaching staff recruitment, over 28,000 posts to be filled
Maharashtra has allowed 80 percent direct recruitment for vacant non-teaching posts in schools after promotions and compassionate appointments are completed.
Recruitment of non-teaching staff in Maharashtra's secondary and higher secondary schools can now move forward. More than 28,000 vacant non-teaching posts in the state are likely to be filled, with new rules now in place for the recruitment process.
Eighty percent of recruitment for the posts of junior clerk, full-time librarian and lab assistant has been permitted through direct service. But before this, the process of promotions and compassionate appointments will have to be completed, after which every appointment will be separately approved through an online process.
Recruitment of non-teaching staff in the state's recognised private, partially aided and fully aided secondary and higher secondary schools will now be entirely online. The state government has approved filling 80 percent of the total vacant posts, as determined by sanctioned strength, through direct recruitment.
A separate non-teaching individual recognition portal will be set up to grant individual recognition to appointments of junior clerks, full-time librarians and lab assistants. All work related to individual recognition of appointments and Shalarth ID will be carried out through this portal, according to clear instructions from Director of Education Dr Mahesh Palkar.
Under the government's decision of August 11, the way has opened to fill non-teaching posts that had been stuck in the state's schools. According to sources, the decision is likely to lead to recruitment for more than 28,000 non-teaching posts across the state.
However, before actually starting direct recruitment, school administrations have been made to complete the process of promotions and compassionate appointments. Even after this process is completed, if posts remain vacant, approval has been given to fill 80 percent of the vacant posts, as determined by sanctioned strength, through direct service.
For the direct recruitment process, the concerned school institutions will have to check their updated staffing pattern. After this, an advertisement format will have to be prepared and a proposal sent for approval to the concerned education officer or divisional deputy director of education.
The recruitment advertisement will have to be published in one local and one state-level newspaper, both among the highest circulated. A minimum of three months has been made mandatory for inviting applications from candidates, scrutinising applications, interviews and final selection. In addition, the rules also provide for in-camera recording of interviews to maintain transparency in the recruitment process.
Prashant Shirgur, state vice-president of the Spardha Pariksha Vidyarthi Sanghatana, said the way has opened for recruitment of librarians, clerks and lab assistants that had been stuck for years, and called the decision to start a separate portal for individual recognition of non-teaching staff a good step. He said that, as per the government's online process policy, the entire recognition process should be completed in the shortest possible time, if possible within 30 days, and Shalarth IDs should be given to staff as soon as possible. He also demanded that employees appointed under compassionate grounds be given recognition and Shalarth ID together.
