Patna, (Bihar Times): The state government has scrapped 12,476 approved but vacant posts of government secondary school assistant teachers in the pay scale of Rs 5,500-9,000.
Instead it has approved the creation of 22,476, that is, exactly 10,000 more new posts of assistant teachers on the much lower consolidated amount of Rs 6,000 per month.
According to reports published in Hindustan Times the government has also decided that the remaining 18.458 posts of assistant teachers in the old pay scale would be surrendered progressively from the date of retirement of each incumbent. All new appointments in their place would be made on Rs 6,000 per month salary.
