Headmasters unhappy with govt - Demand promotion to post of principal
Thursday, 05/07/2012
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120705/ldh1.htm#12
Headmasters working in government schools of the state are unhappy with the government, as there is no response to their long pending demand.
The headmasters have been demanding to promote them as principals, as the government has already promoted master-cadre teachers as lecturers and lecturers as principals.
The headmasters are claiming that the government is showing callous attitude towards their demand. According to the service rules promotion criteria, 55 per cent lecturers should be promoted to the posts of principal, similarly 15 per cent vocational masters and 30 per cent headmasters should be promoted as principals.
Now, the Punjab government recently promoted lecturers and vocational masters as the principals, but 411 posts of principal reserved for the headmasters are still vacant.
Not only promotions, the headmasters are also struggling for hike in grade pay. The headmasters claimed that their community has never staged any protest or dharna and that is the reason the government is not serious about their demands.
Earlier, the grade pay of lecturers was less than headmasters, but the government gave a hike in their grade pay before the Assembly elections after the protests and dharnas. Now, the lecturers and principals are drawing same salaries. The headmasters are demanding more grade pay from the lecturers, as they take care of administrative and financial powers of a school. Sukhmanderpal Singh Brar from the Government School Headmasters Association said, “We never staged any protest or dharna for our demands, still the government never justified with us. Now, we are going to give a memorandum to Deputy Commissioners of all districts for our demands.”
