The government expects to hire 46,000 new employees in the Department of Education, Health and other departments before June. The Government through the Office of the President TAMISEMI in collaboration with the Office of the President Public Service and Good Governance expects to hire 46,000 new employees at the level of Education (Employment of teachers 2024), Health and other cadres before June. after the President gave his approval on April 16, 2024.
Members of Parliament have urged the government to come up
with a strategic plan to provide enough jobs in the education and health cadres
to deal with the shortage of staff in the country, a situation that will go
hand in hand with the infrastructure implementation that took place recently.
Contributing to the estimated income and
expenditure of the President’s Office for Regional Administration and Local
Government (TAMISEMI) for the year 2024/25, they said that these sectors need
enough jobs.
In addition, after four members of
parliament contributed to the employment issue, the Minister of the Office of
the President, Public Service Management and Good Governance, George
Simbachawene informed Parliament that last night President Samia Suluhu Hassan
heard their cry and gave permission for 46,000 jobs per cadre various.
Member of Parliament for Nkasi North
(CHADEMA), Aida Khenani, has said that the improvement and construction of
school infrastructure as well as the health sector should be in line with the
increase in the number of employees for the government to provide enough jobs
so that the relevant buildings can be used properly in the interests of the
people.
He said that at present the government
should focus more on sending staff and medical equipment to the centers being
built, he mentioned that in his state they have a shortage of 175 school
teachers, secondary school teachers shortage 202, health workers 175.
“I appreciate that there
is construction of classrooms, health centers and clinics across the
country, but this issue will be more meaningful if the number of classrooms, is compatible
with the number of teachers because the problem of Tanzanians is not buildings
but education and quality health services ,” said Khenani.
In addition, he has mentioned the lack of
other more reliable employees in the respective areas, including seven
employees, 15 executives, a situation that is holding back revenue collection,
village executives are 25.
Member of Parliament for Nanyamba (CCM)
Abdallah Chikota has mentioned the shortage of staff in his state as a serious
situation affecting the provision of services to citizens.
He
suggested that in this matter they should look more at peripheral regions like
Mtwara where there is a need for 6,088 health sector workers and there are only
2,153, he asked TAMISEMI to request permission to provide employment.
Member of Parliament for Urambo (CCM),
Margaret Sitta has said that the issue of shortage of workers is currently
large in various areas and mentioned in her district that the entire district
has only four doctors with a shortage of 18 doctors.
“They are only doctors, we have not
talked about other workers including nurses, the government should come up with
a strategic plan to increase the number of workers, including the cadre of
teachers who are in great need,” said Sitta.
Member of Parliament for Katavi (CCM),
Martha Mariki, has said that the money spent on improving the infrastructure of
school and health buildings in her region has a shortage of staff for the
health sector by more than 57 percent, a situation that causes the money spent
not to see its work.
New 46000 Government Employment in Education, Health and Other Sectors 2024
Minister Simbachawene has said that the
12,000 positions are for the education sector and more than 10,000 are for the
health cadre, these opportunities will significantly reduce the challenge of
employees as given by the parliamentarians.
Presenting the estimate of the ministry of
OR-TAMISEMI, Mohammed Mchengerwa said that the ministry will facilitate the acquisition
of 400 contract employees who will work in the centers providing health
services, to pay salaries for the 400 employees who will be hired.
The information was given in parliament in
Dodoma by the Minister of State, Office of the President, Public Service
Administration and Good Governance, George Simbachawene, during the question
and answer session of the President’s Office TAMISEMI, answering a question
from the House of Representatives. member of special position. of Parliament
Bernadeta Mushashu who wanted to know the government’s plan to send teachers to
primary and secondary schools.
“The President of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan gave
permission to hire 46,000 employees and for that number, the permission provides a chance to hire12000 teachers and Health
employment is more than 10,000 and I believe that in cooperation with our
TAMISEMI colleagues we will ensure that there are no teachers. in our areas we
will go to areas with a large deficit and we are thinking of doing a new
employment process through our areas and based on the opinions of the members
of parliament” George Simbachawene.
Initially answering the question, the Deputy
Minister of the Office of the President-Tamisemi in charge of Education, Zainab
Katimba said that in May 2023 the Government hired 13,130 teachers and before
the end of the financial year 2023/24 the Government will hire more employees.
Deputy Minister, Office of the President, Public Service Management and Good Governance, Ridhiwani Kikwete, said that for the year 2023/24 the government provided employment opportunities for 10,505 teachers while for the year 2024/25, it expects to provide new jobs for 10,590 teachers to solve the large amount of problems in the area.
The Deputy Speaker, Mussa Zungu, has asked the government when providing employment opportunities to provide employment to teachers who volunteer for more than three to four years because they have shown the spirit of helping the government for a long time.