If the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) education board has its way, 100 teachers could soon be hired to resolve the severe dearth of teaching staff across the 52 English medium schools run by the Corporation.

PMC Education Board Chief Shivaji Daundkar, whose office is at Shivaji Nagar (Above), denies having flouted the RTE, and says RTE norms apply solely to long-term recruitments. File pic

Even receiving a show cause notice from the state — for having flouted the terms of the Right To Education (RTE) Act during the recruitment process — has not put the board off its plans.