In a bid to centralise the recruitment process and prevent local influence, the Telangana government on Wednesday issued orders to dispense with District Selection Committees for recruitment of teachers and instead take it up with the State Public Service Commission. As such, direct recruitment of teachers in all government schools under the administrative control of Director of School Education (DSE), including model schools which were de-linked from a Centrally-sponsored programme and transferred to State governments, would now be conducted by the Public Service Commission. The posts of school assistant, language pandit, secondary grade teacher and physical education teacher would be filled by the commission, the order said.

The commission would also recruit principals, post-graduate teachers and trained graduate teachers in models who were earlier picked up by a State selection committee, it added.

DSE G. Kishan told The Hindu that there was no change in recruitment rules as only the agency had changed. It was done to maintain transparency in the background of allegations about irregularities in the process due to local influence. It was precisely on such complaints that oral interviews in DSC recruitment were withdrawn in 1998.