Thiruvananthapuram: As the staff fixation has not been completed in government schools for the year 2017-2018, the government has issued an order to hire teachers on daily wages basis till the PSC appointment is held. It specifies that primary teachers on daily wages should be paid Rs 850 with a maximum of Rs 24,650 while part-time high school assistant should be paid Rs 975 with a cap of Rs 29,200 a month. For part-time language teachers in secondary schools, the daily wages has been fixed at Rs 675, with a ceiling of Rs 18,900 while part-time language teachers in high school will be paid Rs 650 as daily wages.
In districts where PSC rank list was live, part-time teachers should be appointed from that list. However, they would not be eligible for any service benefits based on this appointment when they get a regular appointment from the PSC list. The staff fixation was to be held on the basis of the student strength in the sixth-day verification. The process had been completed on Friday. The statistics proved that there was a total of 36, 80,740 students in state syllabus schools which meant an increase of 1, 57,406 from last year. Now the general education department would have to fix the number of teachers to be appointed by this student strength. These vacancies have to be reported to the PSC before the appointment.
