Monday 17 February 2014

Aided and unaided colleges of punjab Teachers to go on mass leave

Ludhiana, February 16
Teachers of 136 aided colleges and unaided colleges of Punjab will go on a mass casual leave and hold a protest rally in front of the office of DPI Colleges, Punjab, to push for their pending demands, on March 1.


Teachers will be protesting against the non-fulfillment of their long-pending demands. These include pension and gratuity, lifting ban on recruitment, re-inclusion of teachers working against unaided posts in Service Security Act of 1974, extension of relaxation of RC/OC up to June 2010, as per the parity with counterpart government college teachers, and arrears of pay revision of DPEs and librarians.

Other demands include arrears of pay revision for teachers working against unaided posts (January 2006) and undue delay in the Career Advance Scheme of Union Territory Chandigarh teachers because of the confusion regarding API scores.

Professor JR Prashar, president of the union, severally criticised the state government which repealed the Pension Scheme (December 18, 1996).

Prof Kuldip Singh, general secretary, criticised the government for imposing a ban on recruitment of teachers in aided colleges, since 2005, and exclusion of teachers working against unaided posts from the purview of Service Security Act of 1974.

The security of services was provided to teachers in 1974 when there was no grant-in-aid available for colleges, but unfortunately the security was withdrawn in 2007.

Prof Mukhwinder Singh, vice president, condemned the state government for not extending the benefits of pay revision to the teachers working against unaided posts.

Dr PS Gill, co-president of the union, criticised the Chandigarh Administration for its callous and evasive attitude towards implementing the CAS of teachers working in Chandigarh.

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