Will end contractual hiring, Amarinder Singh promises teachers

“We (previous Congress government) started it because it was an emergency situation. I am completely against this temporary contractual hiring but we had no option then as there was financial crunch. Akalis after coming to power in 2007 should have regularised all the teachers but it never happened. I assure you that this time, contractual hiring will come to an end,” he claimed.

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Captain while answering a query of a teacher on falling education standards due to lack of resources on the ground zero, said, “We will think over setup of an Education Commission if Congress comes to power. This commission will have few bureaucrats and more of teachers who will give their suggestions for new education policy.”

Captain also promised that ‘almost 40,000 vacancies in schools and colleges will be filled immediately.’

Commenting on poor English results in schools, Captain said, “Not only will English teaching be mandatory for students, the training in English speaking and writing for teachers will also be mandatory under Congress government. Without fluency in English, we cannot expect from our students to get jobs either in India or abroad.”

He added that ‘government schools would be provided adequate furniture and teachers would be freed from mid-day meal jobs like filling rations and cylinders’.

Replying to a query whether ‘transfers are politically motivated’, Captain said that ‘teachers should be posted in their own villages/towns for better results’.

Captain claimed that ‘level of education in government schools would be raised at par with private schools.’