60,000 posts of teacher vacant in primary schools
UNB
More than 60,000 posts of teacher, including 16,600 of headmaster, are now vacant in primary schools across the country, Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman told Parliament yesterday, reports UNB.
A total of 16,603 posts of headmaster -- 8,348 posts in government primary schools and 8,255 posts in the nationalised primary schools -- are currently vacant, he said.
The number of vacant posts of assistant teacher is 44,095 -- 23,669 posts in government primary schools and 20,426 in nationalised ones, the minister added.
Mostafizur Rahman placed the data in the House replying to a tabled starred question from ruling Awami League MP AKM Zahangir Hossain (Patuakhali-3).
He said there are 60,695 posts of headmaster -- 37,677 in government schools and 23,018 in naionalised ones - in primary schools, while 3,19,851 posts of assistant teacher -- 2,28,151 in government schools and 91,700 in nationalised schools.
The process to prepare a gradation list of teachers in now underway at the ministry in line with the PSC-related organogram and checklists, aiming to promote them to headmasters, he said.
But the High Court passed a stay order on the process of the gradation list following a writ petition. A leave-to-appeal petition was filed with the Appellate Division against the stay order, he added.
Meanwhile, the Primary and Mass Education Ministry on April 7 last sent a proposal to the Public Service Commission (PSC) for recruitment to the vacant headmaster posts which are eligible for direct appointment, the minister said.
A meeting was also held at the PSC on May 19 last over recruitment against 50 percent of vacant direct posts of headmaster from the 34th BCS candidates,
he informed.
Besides, the process of recruitment against the posts of headmaster and assistant teacher in 667 primary schools, set up under the project of establishment of 1500 new schools in the villages without school, now remain halted due to a court order, Mostafiz said.
