Municipal corporation schools to face teachers shortage

Municipal corporation schools to face teachers shortage

Schools managed and run by South, North and East municipal corporations are staring at teachers crisis as their plans to hire new teachers for the students have hit a hurdle. According to the officials, they have found some discrepancies in the certificates of the some of the candidates which were selected under the OBC category. The term of the contractual teachers is also nearing the end this month. So, MCD schools when they reopen in July they might face a dire scarcity of the teachers in the schools. North body has 765 schools under it. The East and the South body have 365 and 851 schools under them respectively. These schools provide education until class 5th after which the students migrate to schools under the Delhi government. After a long gap of two years, the names of the 3788 teachers were cleared by the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board. However, the board sounded an alert after it found that 77 candidates might have presented fake caste certificates of them belonging to the OBS category. A senior official of the South body said that the agency will verify the certificates physically and as a result the hiring process might get delayed by three to four month. “We are verifying how a candidate is claiming to be a Delhi resident if they have done Class XII from another state,” he said. Till the certificates are verified, it is possible that the South body will halt all the appointments of the teachers. South body education department director Shirish Sharma, said that schools will not be affected as there are no discrepancies in the appointment of the other candidates. “With permission from the highest authority, we can go ahead with other appointments… and hire contractual teachers, if required,” he said.

Source: https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/municipal-corporation-schools-to-face-teachers-shortage-9416