Amritsar, January 6
“Being a single earning hand in my family, I am passing through a state of severe financial crunch. The festive period passed without any celebrations,” lamented a teacher, NN Saini.
Similar is the fate of as many as 4,200 employees working in 484 aided-schools in the state as they have been working
without salary for the past three months.
The Aided School Teachers and Other Employees Union, president, Gurcharan Singh Chahal, reacted to it as the height of insensibility on the part of the Education and the finance departments.
He said the treatment was being meted out to them despite the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to the Secretary Education, Director Schools and the school managements to release the salaries of the aided schools employees by seventh of each month.
The state government provides 95 per cent grant-in-aid while the rest five per cent is shared by the managing committees of the respective schools. The teachers of these schools are complaining of being overburdened as 60 per cent of the posts are lying vacant.
The union members were of the view that the service rules for the employees of aided schools were similar to their counterparts in the government schools.
They were paid salary for the last time after a gap of six months in September.
The Union announced to take up the matter with the Punjab Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal, in the forthcoming meeting to be held at Chandigarh on January 8. Besides, the union would raise the demand of merger of aided schools with government schools. They said it was in 1967 that the then Chief Minister, Lachchman Singh Gill, had brought all the private schools under the grant-in-aid system on Delhi pattern. He said as many as 9,468 posts were sanctioned to 508 schools in the state. He claimed that 24 schools had either been closed while many others were on the verge of closure.
In 2003, Capt Amarinder Singh’s government stopped their pension and also put a ban on filling the vacant posts in these schools. These steps have deteriorated the imparting of education in these schools, he said.
They opined that it would reduce the burden on the judiciary first of all because so many cases of aided schools are in courts. Many employees of the Education Department, including clerks and officials, attend court proceedings which adversely affects their regular office work. The provident fund of these employees amounting to nearly Rs 200 crore would also get shifted to the government treasury.
“Being a single earning hand in my family, I am passing through a state of severe financial crunch. The festive period passed without any celebrations,” lamented a teacher, NN Saini.
Similar is the fate of as many as 4,200 employees working in 484 aided-schools in the state as they have been working
without salary for the past three months.
The Aided School Teachers and Other Employees Union, president, Gurcharan Singh Chahal, reacted to it as the height of insensibility on the part of the Education and the finance departments.
He said the treatment was being meted out to them despite the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to the Secretary Education, Director Schools and the school managements to release the salaries of the aided schools employees by seventh of each month.
The state government provides 95 per cent grant-in-aid while the rest five per cent is shared by the managing committees of the respective schools. The teachers of these schools are complaining of being overburdened as 60 per cent of the posts are lying vacant.
The union members were of the view that the service rules for the employees of aided schools were similar to their counterparts in the government schools.
They were paid salary for the last time after a gap of six months in September.
The Union announced to take up the matter with the Punjab Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal, in the forthcoming meeting to be held at Chandigarh on January 8. Besides, the union would raise the demand of merger of aided schools with government schools. They said it was in 1967 that the then Chief Minister, Lachchman Singh Gill, had brought all the private schools under the grant-in-aid system on Delhi pattern. He said as many as 9,468 posts were sanctioned to 508 schools in the state. He claimed that 24 schools had either been closed while many others were on the verge of closure.
In 2003, Capt Amarinder Singh’s government stopped their pension and also put a ban on filling the vacant posts in these schools. These steps have deteriorated the imparting of education in these schools, he said.
They opined that it would reduce the burden on the judiciary first of all because so many cases of aided schools are in courts. Many employees of the Education Department, including clerks and officials, attend court proceedings which adversely affects their regular office work. The provident fund of these employees amounting to nearly Rs 200 crore would also get shifted to the government treasury.
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