Teachers in Pondy govt schools to be appointed on contract

Puducherry Education Minister R Kamalakannan today said as many as 520 posts of teachers in government schools were vacant and the government has decided to fill up the vacancies by posting teachers on contract basis.

As the concurrence of the Finance Department of Puducherry government was not available immediately to post teachers on regular basis, the government had decided to post teachers on contract basis, he told reporters here.

The government had decided on this step to manage the situation to ensure that government schools produced increased pass percentage in public examinations, he said.

He also released the results of Class XI public examination conducted by the state government in March this year and said a pass percentage of 89.35 was registered in Puducherry and Karaikal regions.

Of the 15,246 students who appeared through government and private schools in the two regions, 13,622 students had emerged successful, Kamalakannan said.

He further said students who were not successful in the examination could proceed to do the plus two course without break, both in private and government schools.

He said the government would adopt 'academic audit' to ascertain the punctuality in attendance of teachers, discipline on the part of students and coordination between schools and parents to augment pass percentage in the future.