The Maharashtra government's new scheme for appointing teachers in schools and colleges on contract at low salaries has justifiably come up against stiff resistance
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The Maharashtra government's new scheme for appointing
teachers in schools and colleges on contract at low salaries has
justifiably come up against stiff resistance
n July 2000, the government of
Maharashtra came up with a new
scheme to hire teachers on contract for
schools and junior colleges. It is called
Shikshan Sevak scheme and is the first
scheme of its kind in the country under
which a state government will fill up regular
vacancies for teachers with contractual
appointments. (Similar schemes in other
states - Gujarat Madhya Pradesh and
Rajasthan - are limited to appointing
assistant teachers for their adult literacy
programmes.) Under the scheme, the
government is to appoint fully qualified
teachers on contract for the consolidated
monthly salary ranging from Rs 3,000 to
Rs 5,000 per month without any other
allowances or benefits. Details are as
follows: primary school teachers: Rs 3,000;
secondary school teachers: Rs 4,000; higher
secondary/junior college teachers:
Rs 5,000
