Teachers without salary for months
Wednesday, 23/05/2012
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120523/punjab.htm#11
Around 6,447 computer teachers, whose services were regularised ten months ago, have not got their salaries for the past four months.
With the regularisation of their services, there was a quantum jump in the salaries of these teachers up from Rs 10,000 to Rs 33,000.
The file for the release of salaries has been shuffling between the various departments. The Finance Department has been saying that it has no approval to release funds, said Gurvinder Singh, state president of the Computer Teachers' Union.
Jagtar Singh Jagga, deputy manager, Punjab Information and Communication Technology Education Society (PICTES), said there were some hurdles in the clearance of salary budget from the Finance Department. The salaries would be released soon, he added.
However, sources revealed that before regularisation of their services, the Central Government was funding the IT project under which the teachers were hired. The Punjab government had planned to meet the increased financial burden by charging computer fee from the students, but it could effectively do so because of free education for girl students and the RTE Act.
