BPSC Teacher recruitment 2025: Last date to apply for 7279 Special School Teacher posts today
A total of 7279 vacancies have been notified, of which 5,534 posts are designated for Primary Level (Classes 1 to 5) and 1,745 posts for Upper Primary Level (Classes 6 to 8). Applicants can check the eligibility criteria, age limit, pay scale, and other details available in the notification below:
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The application fee is Rs 750 for general and other unreserved candidates, and Rs 200 for SC/ST, all category female candidates, and differently-abled candidates (40% or more disability). An additional biometric fee of Rs 200 applies, for candidates who have not provided an Aadhaar number as identity proof.
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Lines 2A and 7 between Andheri and Dahisar, for instance, have only reached 2.05 lakh ridership per day – 25% of the projected ridership, data till mid-June shows. The latest addition to the network – the Aqualine which connects Aarey Colony in the north to Worli in central Mumbai – has only 45,000 daily passengers, till mid-June, a tenth of estimated daily ridership, The total daily ridership on all four metro lines is less than seven lakh, against an estimate of 18.84 lakh. The Mumbai metro network is being built at a staggering cost of more than Rs 90,000 crore, which is escalating with every year of construction delays. Its failure to attract riders, experts say, reflects a wider crisis in India's urban transport landscape – the focus of this three-part series. Connectivity trouble Mumbai currently has four metro lines run by three operators. Not only do they lack seamless interconnectivity, the lines don't even share common ticketing. Every morning that Sahil Gupta, an engineer, takes the metro to work, he goes through three rounds of security checks, ticket scans and baggage scans. An autorickshaw from home takes him to Malad station in the western suburbs where he boards metro line 2A, alighting at DN Nagar. Here, he exits the station, takes a foot overbridge to line 1. He repeats ticketing and security before travelling to Marol, where he crosses the road, and goes through the same drill again before boarding his third and final metro line 3 to get to the airport. 'The system is complicated,' Gupta said. 'I have to buy three tickets and go through three scans.' An official from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority defended the system, saying it was natural for each metro operator to undertake their own security checks. In June, the National Common Mobility Card came into use in Maharashtra. The contactless card is meant to streamline travel across all modes of public transport in India. 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Time of India
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Time of India
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