Amritsar, January 10
Angered over the non-deliverance of a promise made by Education Minister Sikandar Singh Maluka to arrange a meeting with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on January 8, the Aided School Teachers and Other Employees Union announced to hold a protest rally in Education Minister’s constituency at Rampura Phull in Bhatinda on January 18.
For this, the teachers would proceed on mass casual leave on that day. The union president Gurcharan Singh Chahal had called off a protest rally at Chandigarh on December 20 after an assurance by the minister to arrange a meeting with the Chief Minister.
Among others, the union has been raising the demand of merger of aided schools with government schools. The teachers, who have been struggling for this for the past few years, say that this was the only solution to all the ongoing problems of the aided schools in the state.
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 for 508 schools in the state. He claimed that 24 schools had either been closed or were on the verge of closure.
In 2003, the Amarinder Singh government stopped their pension and put a ban on filling the vacant posts in these schools. These steps deteriorated the imparting of education in these schools, he said.
The union says the panacea for several ills plaguing the government-aided schools rested in their merger with the Education Department.
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 affected their regular office work. The provident fund of these employees amounting to nearly Rs 200 crore would also get shifted to the government treasury.
Their other demand includes irregular release of the 95 per cent grant-in aid by the state government is continuously delaying their salary, alleged Ajay Chouhan of the union. He said as many as 4,200 employees working in 484 aided schools in the state had been without salary for the past three months. Earlier, they were issued salary after a gap of six months in September.
The teachers of these schools are complaining of being overburdened as 60 per cent posts are lying vacant.
Angered over the non-deliverance of a promise made by Education Minister Sikandar Singh Maluka to arrange a meeting with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on January 8, the Aided School Teachers and Other Employees Union announced to hold a protest rally in Education Minister’s constituency at Rampura Phull in Bhatinda on January 18.
For this, the teachers would proceed on mass casual leave on that day. The union president Gurcharan Singh Chahal had called off a protest rally at Chandigarh on December 20 after an assurance by the minister to arrange a meeting with the Chief Minister.
Among others, the union has been raising the demand of merger of aided schools with government schools. The teachers, who have been struggling for this for the past few years, say that this was the only solution to all the ongoing problems of the aided schools in the state.
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 for 508 schools in the state. He claimed that 24 schools had either been closed or were on the verge of closure.
In 2003, the Amarinder Singh government stopped their pension and put a ban on filling the vacant posts in these schools. These steps deteriorated the imparting of education in these schools, he said.
The union says the panacea for several ills plaguing the government-aided schools rested in their merger with the Education Department.
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 affected their regular office work. The provident fund of these employees amounting to nearly Rs 200 crore would also get shifted to the government treasury.
Their other demand includes irregular release of the 95 per cent grant-in aid by the state government is continuously delaying their salary, alleged Ajay Chouhan of the union. He said as many as 4,200 employees working in 484 aided schools in the state had been without salary for the past three months. Earlier, they were issued salary after a gap of six months in September.
The teachers of these schools are complaining of being overburdened as 60 per cent posts are lying vacant.
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