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‘Give salaries to teachers in first week of the month’

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Salaries to ZP, CEO, BEO to be given only after teachers are paid: association

Memorandum submitted to the Minister had
17 demands
‘Aided schoolteachers are being paid salaries in third or fourth week of the month’

BANGALORE: Karnataka State Secondary Teachers’ Association has urged the Primary and Secondary Education Minister Vishveshwara Hegde Kageri to take steps to ensure that teachers get their salaries within the first week of every month.

The office-bearers of the association met the new Minister in Bangalore on Thursday and submitted a memorandum containing 17 demands, including the one regarding payment of salaries within the first week.

Undue delay

Briefing presspersons later, association president K. Balakrishna Bhat and organising secretary Captain Ganesh Karnik, who are also BJP leaders, expressed concern that teachers’ salaries were getting delayed. While the Government schoolteachers were getting their salaries either by the end of the first week or in the second week, the aided schoolteachers were being paid their salaries in third or fourth week of the month. There were instances where the salaries of aided schoolteachers were paid after a delay of more than a month, Capt. Karnik said.

The association also suggested that the salaries of Block Education Officers, Deputy Directors of Public Instruction and Chief Executive Officer of Zilla Panchayats be paid only after teachers get their salaries. This would bring in more accountability as it is these officials who share the responsibility of payment of teachers’ salaries, it observed.

The other demands of the association include removal of disparities between the salaries of teachers with those in other States; providing educational loans at low interest rates to the children of teachers and providing reservation to them in educational institutions; and bifurcating high schools from the composite junior colleges.

Support

The association also expressed its support to the BJP in the coming elections to the four seats of the Legislative Council from the teachers and graduates’ constituencies of the State.

BJP candidate from Bangalore Teachers’ Constituency M. Neelaiah was also present at the press conference.

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