Delhi government has announced recruitment for 5,346 posts. trained graduate teacher (TGT) for government and municipal schools, a move designed to strengthen classroom teaching and ensure individual attention for students of classes 6 to 10.
Posting on social media platform X on Wednesday, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said these new appointments are aimed at providing quality education and tailored guidance to students, helping them realize their full potential.
“This is an initiative towards building an education system where students get quality education, personalized support and opportunities to fully develop their potential,” Gupta said.
However, experts say around 10,000 teaching posts are currently vacant in Delhi government schools, a situation that is negatively impacting the student-teacher ratio, reports news agency PTI.
A circular has been issued by Directorate of Education (DoE) confirmed on October 3 that the application window for these vacant roles opened on October 9 and will officially close on November 7.
Official data from DOE shows that there are currently over 70,000 teachers working in Delhi government schools who teach over 18 lakh students.
Delhi improves school hygiene, expands private cleaning services
In a concerted effort to ensure cleaner and more hygienic campuses, the Delhi government has revamped the sanitation system within its state schools, and expanded private cleaning services to hundreds of additional institutions in the national capital.
The Delhi Directorate of Education (DOE) has signed a comprehensive agreement with a private organization to manage sanitation in 621 schools. This significant expansion builds on the 117 schools that are already using such private services.
“The aim of the restructuring is to maintain the highest standards of hygiene in all government schools,” an official said, reporting news agency PTI.
“Regular inspections will be conducted by departmental officials to ensure proper implementation of the sanitation contract,” he said.
For those schools that are not yet covered under private contracts, the government has ensured constant cleanliness by deploying three to four regular sanitation workers in each institution, the exact number of which depends on student enrollment figures.
Strict instructions have been issued to heads of schools to closely monitor all sanitization work and guarantee that sanitization duties are completely completed at least 30 minutes before the start of each school session.
The guidelines also state that school heads will have to carefully maintain attendance records for all private sanitation workers and ensure that only female workers are deployed to clean girls’ toilet facilities.
