Delegation meets Finance officials
8,000 teachers sans salaries for 6 months
Surinder Bhardwaj
Fatehgarh Sahib, Sept 24
A delegation of Govt-Aided School Progressive Front, led by its state president Upjit Singh Brar, called on officials of the Finance Department at Chandigarh to get released the last six month's salary of over 8,000 teachers of govt-aided schools.
The delegation told the officials that the teachers in the state had not received their salaries from the last six months and were forced to live a miserable life.
Gurdish Singh, state press secretary, said the officials of the department had assured that a meeting of top officials would be held on Wednesday and a positive decision to release their salaries be taken on the occasion.
He urged the government to release their salary in time.
He said they had been struggling since long to get their demands like restoration of the pension scheme, implementation of the new pay scales as per the Fifth Pay Commission report, permission to fill the vacant posts of principal and teacher in aided schools accepted.
Nakesh Jindal, president, Private-Aided School Managements Association said due to the non-release of government grant as well as sanction to fill the vacant posts of teachers, managements were finding it difficult to run the schools.
8,000 teachers sans salaries for 6 months
Surinder Bhardwaj
Fatehgarh Sahib, Sept 24
A delegation of Govt-Aided School Progressive Front, led by its state president Upjit Singh Brar, called on officials of the Finance Department at Chandigarh to get released the last six month's salary of over 8,000 teachers of govt-aided schools.
The delegation told the officials that the teachers in the state had not received their salaries from the last six months and were forced to live a miserable life.
Gurdish Singh, state press secretary, said the officials of the department had assured that a meeting of top officials would be held on Wednesday and a positive decision to release their salaries be taken on the occasion.
He urged the government to release their salary in time.
He said they had been struggling since long to get their demands like restoration of the pension scheme, implementation of the new pay scales as per the Fifth Pay Commission report, permission to fill the vacant posts of principal and teacher in aided schools accepted.
Nakesh Jindal, president, Private-Aided School Managements Association said due to the non-release of government grant as well as sanction to fill the vacant posts of teachers, managements were finding it difficult to run the schools.
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