EDMC terminates teachers absent on duty for inordinately long time

Based on the final assessment of the gap, new teachers will be recruited by EDMC, to ensure that the corporation provides better and quality education to the students in primary schools. 

Municipal school teachers absent from their duties for an inordinately long time are under the radar of East Delhi Municipal Corporation. Taking action against such teachers, EDMC has terminated some of them from the services, officials told PTI.

The Corporation commenced taking action in the last few days. According to PTI, the EDMC, in a statement said, “In a bid to streamline and improve the performance of its schools, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation has started taking action against such teachers in EDMC schools who have been absent for more than five years, without any satisfactory reasons for the same”.

Notices have been issued to resume work or give valid reasons for continued leave or absence to all teachers who had been on “long leave”. Some of the teachers had remained absent after taking leave initially, it said.

the EDMC further added, “Consequently, in some of the cases where no satisfactory replies had been received, under the provisions of amended Leave Rules and DMC Regulations 1959, the services of the teachers have been terminated after following due procedure.”

The officials of EDMC told that teachers who are no more interested to join back or willfully absenting themselves will be given notice for termination of their services.

However, the corporation did not reveal the number of teachers whose services have been terminated. This process will also help EDMC identify the actual gap in the sanctioned strength of teachers and actual strength.

Based on the final assessment of the gap, new teachers will be recruited by EDMC, to ensure that the corporation provides better and quality education to the students in primary schools and maintain the requisite PTR (pupil-teacher ratio) and the quality education of the children is not affected, the statement said.

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