Chandigarh, December 30, 2016: The Education Department, Punjab, has decided to give new year bonanza to the 1000 newly recruited master cadre teachers by deciding to give them appointment letters on 1st January, 2017. This was disclosed by the Education Minister, Punjab, Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema here today after presiding over a high level meeting of the department.
Disclosing more, Dr. Cheema said that the Education department has recruited 84000 teachers during the past 10 years. In continuation of the process, the 1000 teachers kept in the waiting list of recent master cadre recruitment would get appointment letters on new year eve.
The Education Minister further said that apart from this, the advertisement for the recruitment of 874 DPE and 74 New Physical Education lecturers has also been issued today.
It was also decided in the meeting to approve the filling of 208 posts from lecturer to Principal through promotion mode the process regarding which would be completed very soon.
Prominent among others who were present in the meeting included Additional Chief Secretary Dr G Vajralingam, DGSE Mr Pardeep Aggarwal, DPI (SE) Mr Sukhdev Singh Kahlon, DPI (EE) Mr Inderjit Singh, Director (Administration) Mrs Gurpreet Kaur Dhaliwal and Deputy Director Dr Ginni Duggal.