Recruitment circular: Non-teaching staff of schools to meet deputy CM

The organisation had also carried out a rally on the same issue in Nagpur during the winter session of the State assembly.

According to Shivaji Khandekar,divisional secretary of the organisation,the delegation will meet Patil on Wednesday. “The move is unjustifiable,as it means 28,000 non-teaching employees of various schools across the state will lose their jobs,” he said.

He said the state government had appointed the one-member Kokane Committee in 2003 to decide on the requirement of non-teaching staffs in schools. “The committee recommended downsizing of almost 50 per cent of non-teaching staff including peons,lab assistants and other class IV employees,” he said.

“The non-teaching employees had opposed the recommendation then. The government had stayed the resolution after an agitation by organisations,” he said.

“The government tried to enforce it in 2005 in a new form. It was also opposed,as there was no mention of filling new posts of peons. Another agitation followed and the government stayed it again,” he said.

Khandekar said that,meanwhile; the government didn’t fill the posts of non-teaching staff that retired in the last six years.

“The government was supposed to fill vacant posts in February last year,but in a complete U-turn on November 10,2009 the government cancelled that circular,” he said.

A circular issued on November 10 by school education department stated that the 2005 pattern of non-teaching staff recruitment would continue.

“This means that the government has plans to reduce non-teaching staff. We have conveyed the issue to Patil and he agreed to our demand. We will now follow up the issue till the circular gets cancelled,” said Khandekar.