CM Bhagwant Mann to meet Govt school principals and teachers on May 7, leaves cancelled
Chandigarh,May3 -In an official notice circulated by Director General of School Education, Punjab – Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has called meeting of government school principals and teachers on May 7.
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The notice said that no teacher shall take leave on Saturday i.e. on May 7 and if a teacher or principal still intends to take leave on May 7, then permission must be obtained from the Chief Secretary itself.
Notably, this meeting has been called after days of Bhagwant Mann’s visit to Delhi government schools.
The Punjab cabinet, chaired by chief minister Bhagwant Mann, on Monday approved the recruitment to 26,454 posts at different levels in various departments of the state government.
The criteria and details of the posts in the state departments will be announced later. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which had won the recent assembly elections with a thumping majority, had promised to fill all vacancies.
The cabinet also cleared the one MLA one pension scheme for which Mann had already made an announcement 10 days after taking charge as the CM in March. The state government will bring out a new policy to give pensions to former MLAs.
The cabinet also accorded the delivery of wheat to the doorsteps of 1.5 crore beneficiaries in the state covered under the National Food Security Act under which 5kg wheat or wheat flour a month is offered to beneficiaries spread over 40 lakh households in the state.
Taking the plea that beneficiaries who are poor had to stand in queues to get ration, Mann announced that they could opt for home delivery at a time of their choice.
The cabinet also approved ₹41.8 crore as compensation for loss to cotton crop, particularly in the Malwa belt. Cotton growers will get a total sum of ₹°38.08 crore for loss to their crop and farm workers in cotton fields will be given ₹3.81 crore for loss to their labour hours.
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