Scales of Pay and Allowances-Appointment of staff- Rule 7-8-9-MEPS

7. Scales of Pay and Allowances.- 

(i) The scales of pay for full-time as well as part-time Heads, Assistant, Heads, Supervisors, Teachers and the non-teaching staff in the primary schools, secondary schools including night schools, Junior colleges and junior colleges of education, shall be as specified in Schedule "C"

(ii) The allowances such as dearness allowance, compensatory local allowance and house rent allowance admissible from time to time at the place of duty to the full time employee of a school shall be payable at the rates and according to such rules as are sanctioned by Government specifically to the employees of private schools. 

(iii) The rates of dearness allowance applicable to part-time teaching and non-teaching staff in schools including night schools shall be such as may from time to time be determined by the Government by general or special order. 

8. Determining the pay-scale admissible to the Head and admissibility of posts of Assistant Head, Supervisor etc.-

(1) Admissibility of -

(a) the scale of pay to the posts of Head in any school, and 

(b) the post of Assistant Head, and the number of posts of supervisors and other teaching and non-teaching staff. 

shall be determined on the basis of the strength of students on the roll or the number of divisions of the school, as the case may be, as on the 1st August of a year. 

(2) After the appointments to the teaching and non-teaching posts are made, the names and particulars of qualifications and experience of the persons so appointed shall be forwarded within a fortnight from the date of each such appointment to the Education Officer and in the case of Junior College of Education to the Deputy Director. 

9. Appointment of staff.-

(2) Appointments of teaching staff (other than the Head and Assistant Head) and those of non-teaching staff in a school shall be made by the School Committee:

Provided that, appointments in leave vacancies of a short duration not exceeding three months, may be made by the Head, if so authorized by the School Committee.

(3) Unless otherwise provided in these rules for every appointment to be made in a school, for a teaching or a non-teaching post, the candidates eligible for appointment and desirous of applying for such post shall make an application in writing giving full details regarding name, address, date of birth, educational and professional qualifications, experience, etc. attaching true copies of the original certificates. It shall not be necessary for candidates other than those belonging to the various sections of backward communities for whom posts are reserved under sub-rule (7) to state their castes in their applications. 

(4) The age-limit for appointment to any post in a school shall be as follows, namely:- 

(a) for an appointment to be made to any post in a primary school, a candidate shall not be less than 18 years of age and more than 25 years of age, and in the case of candidates belonging to the Backward Classes he shall not be more than 30 years of age:

Provided that, upper age-limit may be relaxed in case of women, ex-servicemen and persons having previous experience with the previous permission of the Deputy Director.

(b) for an appointment to be made to any post in any school other than primary school, a candidates shall not be below the age limit of 18 years. 

(5) A letter of appointment order in the Form in Schedule "D" shall be issued to a candidate appointed to the post. A receipt in token of having received the appointment order shall be obtained from the candidate appointed. 

(6) Every employee shall within three months of his appointment, undergo medical examination by a registered medical practitioner named, if any, by the Management or otherwise by any registered medical examination shall be borne by the management. The appointment shall be conditional pending certificate that he is free from any communicable disease and that he is physically fit to be so appointed. 

(7) The Management shall reserve 34 per cent of the total number of posts of the teaching as well as non-teaching staff for the members of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Castes converts to Buddhism, Scheduled Tribes, Denotified Tribes, Nomadic Tribes and other Backward Classes as follows, namely:-

(a) Scheduled castes and scheduled castes converts to Buddhism.       

(b) Scheduled tribes including those living outside the specified ares.

(c) Denotified tribes and Nomadic tribes. 

(d) Other backward classes.

(8) For the purpose of filling up the vacancies reserved under sub-rule (7) the Management shall advertise the vacancies in at least one newspaper having wide circulation in the region and also notify the vacancies to the Employment Exchange of the District and to the District Social Welfare Officer requisitioning the names of qualified personnel if any, registered with them. If any, who have applied in response to the advertisement or whose names are recommended by the Employment Exchange or the District Social Welfare Officer or if no such names are recommended by the Employment Exchange or the District Social Welfare Officer within a period of one month the management may proceed to fill up the reserved post in accordance with the provisions of sub-rule (9).

(9) (a) In case it is not possible to fill in the teaching post for which a vacancy is reserved fro a person belonging to a particular category of backward classes, the post may be filled in by selecting a candidate from the other remaining categories in the order specified in sub-rule (7) and if no person from any of the categories is available, the post may be filed in temporarily on an year-to-year basis by a candidate not belonging to the backward classes. 

(b) In the case of a non-teaching post, if a person from the particular category of backward classes is not available, the management shall make efforts with regular intervals to fill up to the post within the period of five years and the post shall not be filled up during hat period by appointed any other person who does not belong to the respective category of Backward class. 

(10) (a) The management shall reserve 24 per cent of the total number of posts (or vacancies) of Heads and assistant heads for the members of scheduled castes, scheduled casts converts to Buddhism, Scheduled Tribes, Denotified Tribes, and Nomadic Tribes as follows, namely:- 

(i) Scheduled castes and scheduled castes converts to Buddhism.                       13 per cent 

(ii) Scheduled tribes including those living outside the specified ares.                 7 per cent 

(iii) Denotified tribes and Nomadic tribes.                                                              4 per cent

(b) In case it is not possible to fill in the post of head or assistant head for which a vacancy is reserved for a person belonging to the castes and tribes specified in clause (a), the post may be filled in by promotions a candidate from the other remaining categories in the order specified in clause (a), so however that the percentage of filling up such vacancies does not exceed the limit laid down for each such category. If candidates belonging to any of these categories are not available, then the vacancy or vacancies- 

(i) of the head may be filled in by promoting any other teacher on the basis of seniority-sum-merit after obtaining previous approval of the Education Officer;

(ii) of the assistant head shall be kept unfilled for a period of three years unless such vacancy or vacancies could be filled in by promotion of any teachers belonging to such castes or tribes becoming available during that period. 

(11) The provisions of sub-rules (7), (8) and (10) shall not apply to a school having 10 or less than 10 posts (inclusive of both teaching and non-teaching) on its establishment.