Grievances panel to decide on release of teachers’ salaries

The government had withheld the salaries by issuing a notification on March 6,which invoked the ‘no work-no pay’ principle.

MFUCTO has already expressed dissatisfaction over the fact that the grievances redressal committee is not represented by the teaching community. “We have no hope that the issue will get solved,for the simple reason that we have no voice in the committee. Ministers and senior bureaucrats are sitting on the panel,so we do not expect justice,” a senior MFUCTO leader said.

To comply with directives from the Bombay High Court,a grievances redressal committee was formed at the end of last month to serve as a platform for college and university teachers to raise grievances or demands.

The eight member grievances redressal panel is headed by Tope with the minister of state for higher and technical education as its vice-chairman.

Principal secretaries of higher and technical,finance,planning,law and judiciary are also members of the panel.

The exact number of teachers who have not received their salaries for taking part in the agitation is not in the public domain,but is expected to be large.