The education minister of the state Ranoj Pegu announced that the state government is committed to appoint at least 20,000 teachers in the state by the 10th of May of this year under the Mission 1 lakh jobs. The Assam education minister shared more information on recruitment of 20,000 Teachers, the minister said that advertisements for the recruitment on all the posts have been issued. As soon as the merit list is declared, the appointment for the post will begin. The minister also said that there are vacancies at different levels – Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Secondary and Post Graduate teachers, Assistant teachers which altogether creates an opportunity for 20,000 different posts.
“We have issued advertisements for all these posts. Now the document verification for teachers of Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Secondary is going on. Once it is completed, the merit list will come out and the government will start giving the appointment. It is under the ‘Mission 1 lakh jobs’ drive of the Assam government and it will be completed by May 10 this year,” Pegu said.
Pegu also talked about the NEP 2020 (new education policy) that was laid down by the Centre in 2020. He emphasized the fact the government has already started the implementation.
The new education policy is a broad framework of a new education system under which we have already notified that our Directorate of School Education will be of two school education in elementary education and secondary education. From 2022-23 we will start delinking Class 11 and 12 from the colleges and the colleges will be purely for degree and post-graduate courses only, he said.
NEP 2020: Centre Approves ‘New India Literacy Programme’ For FYs 2022-2027
In a bid to educate more and more people and to cover all aspects of adult education to align with the National Education Policy 2020, the central government has launched a new scheme, the “New India Literacy Programme,” for the period FYs 2022–2027. The Nation’s Education Policy NEP) 2020 aims to cover “Adult Education and Lifelong Learning”. According to the government, this program under the national scheme aims to impart foundational literacy and numeracy skills among the citizens of the 21st century.
A committee of Social Welfare, Education, Health, Tribal Affairs department have been constituted by the government for Pre-primary education, in order to look after the education as well as health and nutrition of the students who are studying in the pre-primary level.