Urdu to be taught in all primary schools in Mewat

Urdu would be taught in all the primary schools of Mewat district in Haryana and 544 posts of Urdu teachers have been sanctioned to promote the use of language. Stating this today, Mewat MLA Aftab Ahmed said Haryana would now have a separate teaching cadre and 5000 posts of teachers had been sanctioned for this area to improve the level of education here. He thanked Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and said that with this decision the long pending demand of the people of Mewat had been fulfilled.

The state government had already issued a notification in this regard. He said that the government had notified Mewat District School Education Group C and B Rules and it had been made mandatory that those teachers who were willing for appointment in Mewat would not be transferred to any other district. However, applicants from all the districts of the state could apply for these posts. He said that the government had sanctioned 2910 posts of Primary Teachers, 265 Trained Graduate Teachers (TGTs), 121 TGTs Science, 105 TGTs Mathematics, two each TGTs for Urdu, Home Science and Music, one TGT Arts, and 15 Post-graduate Teachers (PGT) of Physical Education. Also, 341 elementary headmasters, 410 head teachers, 25 principals and 44 headmasters had been sanctioned. He said that 33 per cent posts had been reserved for women. He said with a view to promoting Urdu language, the state government had also sanctioned 544 posts of Urdu teachers. Urdu would be taught in all the primary schools of district Mewat.

He said in the last two years, 1500 teachers had been appointed in Mewat. The Government had also opened Aarohi schools and Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya in Mewat. UNI