Govt of Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet today approved engagement of over 4,600 lecturers and teachers on academic arrangements to provide  adequate teaching staff at Government-run educational institutions

The state cabinet that met here today under the chairpersonship of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti approved temporary engagement of 2200 Lecturers and 400 Teachers under up-gradation programme on academic arrangement basis for the academic Session 2018-19.

The arrangement will be made at an enhanced honorarium of Rs.14000/- per month and at the rate of Rs.10500/- for third/hard zone and Plain areas in respect of Lecturers for ten months in Higher Secondary Schools and Rs.7500/- per month and Rs.4500/- per month for 3rd/ Hard Zone and Plain Areas respectively in respect of Teachers for 10 months in upgraded High Schools.

The academic arrangement will subsist till regular selections are made.