Cabinet sanctions 1,190 posts in HP departments

Shimla, Sep 18 (UNI) Himachal Pradesh Cabinet today sanctioned 1,190 posts of different categories in various departments of the state and permitted the Education Department to carry direct recruitment of 1,135 lecturers (School Cadre).

The Cabinet in its meeting presided over by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal also allowed regularisation of contract teachers in different categories, fulfilling eligibility criteria for the specific posts, besides having completed eight years of service upto March 31, with immediate effect.

It approved to promulgate an Ordinance to replace the Himachal Pradesh Private Universities (Establishment and Regulation) Act, 2006, to open Chitkara University in the private sector in the state and also approved another Ordinance for the establishment of Eternal University in the private sector.

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