Repatriate teachers on deputation: Centre to DPI

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In the letter sent to DPI(Schools), the Centre has directed the UT Education Department to take action in favour of the teachers. A reply regarding the same will also be sent to general secretary of UT Cadre Educational Employees Union Rakesh Puri. Members of the union stated that if the education department failed to respond to this issue, they would approach the Ministry of Human Resource and Development again.

According to president of UT Cadre Educational Employees Union Swarn Singh Kamboj, close to 730 government schools teachers/lecturers have not been repatriated to their parent states. “In the last few years, about 500 teachers have been made to overstay in Chandigarh, and out of these, many have now even retired after having spent 15-20 years here. In the last five months, 250 teachers who were relieved have not been sent back to their hometowns.”

The UT Cadre Educational Employees Union has also raised the issue of low salaries of part-time teachers. According to the members of the union, part-time teachers at government schools in the city are paid Rs 12,000 monthly, which is not even half the amount given to the permanent teachers. The union has demanded an increase in the salary of a part-time teacher to a minimum of Rs 21,000.

The union has also condemned the failure of the government in providing salaries to 46 lady volunteer teachers in the last seven months, and has asked the UT Educational Department to initiate a process to relieve their salaries.