Punjab govt to appoint 7,654 teachers

 The Punjab government today announced that it will soon issue appointment letters to over 7000 teachers in the state.



The Punjab education department will appoint 7,654 master cadre lecturers and vocational teachers within 15 days, state education minister Upinderjit Kaur said here.



Kaur announced that the department would recruit 3,624 elementary trained teachers and said an advertisement in this regard will be published soon in the newspapers.



Following the vacation of stay orders on recruitment of the teachers by Punjab and Haryana High court on September 23, education department will be issuing appointment letters, she said. Earlier a teacher's body moved the High Court seeking regularisation of their posts.



SOURCE;PTI