Jagadhri, October 2
The Haryana Government will recruit 11,000 teachers, out of which 50 per cent of the posts would go to candidates who have passed their matriculation from rural schools of the state. Thirty three per cent of the seats have been reserved for women candidates.
The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bhupender Singh Hooda, announced this while speaking at a function organised at Batholi village, about 5 km from here on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. Last year, the village was selected as one of the 500 villages to be developed as a model village under the Gandhi Gramodya Abhiyan by the Ministry of Youth Welfare and Sports. The scheme was conceived by the then Union Minister, the late Sunil Dutt to fulfil the cherished dreams of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Paying tributes to former Prime Minister, the late Lal Bahadur Shastri, he said Mr Shastri gave the slogan of ‘Jai jawan jai kissan’. He praised the role played by the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan in the development of the country.
Earlier, addressing the gathering, Mr Prithvi Raj Chauhan, Minister of State for Youth Welfare and Sports, said under the first phase of the scheme, 500 villages had been selected to make them model. The ministry was planning to extend the scheme to five lakh villages.
Congress general secretary and in charge of party affairs in the state, Mr Janardhan Dwivedi, and director general of the sangathan, Mr Sakil Ahmad, also spoke on the occasion.
