SHIMLA-15^th May, 2025-Education Minister Rohit Thakur said here today that the State Government has regularized 778 part time water carriers working in the Education Department who had completed 11 years combined part time water carrier and daily wagers services as on 31^st March, 2025 against vacant posts of Class-IV. He said that the State Government fulfilled the long pending demand of the employees. The present State Government is always alive to the genuine demands of the employees and fulfils them from time to time to benefit them.

He said that the present State Government led by Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has taken various revolutionary steps in the education sector after coming to power due to which the education standard was improved. The State Government was filling up the vacant posts and it has sanctioned 15000 posts of teachers, including 3900 posts in the primary education department and additional 3100 posts would soon be filled through H.P. Rajya Chayan Aayog. To strengthen the pre-primary education, 6200 nursery teachers were being appointed.

Rohit Thakur said that during the previous BJP Government the recruitment process in the education sector had come to halt, but the present Government is actively working to strengthen the education sector by filling vacant posts. He said that the services of more than 200 acting Principals working in the educational institutions across the State have been regularized whereas in the Higher Education Department 483 Assistant Professors had been recruited. He said that during the last two and a half years, the present Government has appointed 700 lecturers in schools, while only 511 lecturers were appointed during the entire five years of tenure of the previous BJP Government.

The Education Minister said that the reforms undertaken by the State Government were yielding positive results and ranking in providing quality education has been improved. According to the Annual Status of Education Report released in January, 2025, the reading skills of government schools' students in Himachal Pradesh were among the best in the country. On most parameters of this survey, Himachal Pradesh has been rated as the top performing State in school education nationwide.