Maharashtra govt to resume phase 2 of school teacher recruitment; 10% posts withheld in phase 1

NEW DELHI: Maharashtra government will resume the second phase of its school teacher recruitment drive, which was held up for the past few months due to the state assembly elections. This is the largest school recruitment drive by the state in over a decade, with 21,768 vacant posts in government-run and private aided schools being filled.

In the first phase of the Maharashtra school teacher recruitment drive, 19,986 candidates were recommended for vacant posts, while 10% were withheld due to issues in the schools' roster.

In the second phase of Maharashtra school teacher recruitment, these 10% posts as well as the posts left unclaimed in the first round will be filled. ⁠If the concerned management has registered in the first phase on "Pavitra Portal" for advertisement of vacancies then they can login using the user id and password registered earlier.

"Management who want to register newly need to register on the portal. For this, the user id in Saral system will be the user id of this portal. After clicking on forgotten password, the management should enter the user id of Saral portal of management under the option for reset password using onetime password sent via sms, then enter the mobile number and enter the captcha and click on proceed. Click on After that enter new password/confirm new password in reset password and enter captcha and click on change password, then login can be done by entering newly reset password", the official notice read.

Phase 1 commenced in February 2024

In February 2024, the state’s school education department started recruiting teachers for 21,678 vacant positions through Pavitra portal —a tech-based centralised platform for the process, where advertisements are declared on details of vacant posts and qualified candidates apply.

The state has directed its local self governance bodies and private institutions to update the list of vacancies on its PAVITRA portal according to the staffing pattern of academic year 2022-23. However, teachers' bodies have demanded that the appointments should be as per the staffing pattern determined in 2023-24.

Maharashtra teacher phase 2 advertisement will be conducted for the recruitment of teachers from among the candidates who passed the Teacher Aptitude and Intelligence Test 2022. A review will first be taken of available vacant seats, apart from 10 per cent posts reserved from the first phase of the process.