In December Punjab teachers received half of the salary for the month of August

In December Punjab teachers received half of the salary for the month of August

The bankrupt government of the state of Punjab has started a new trend of paying the monthly salaries of the teachers. Instead of paying them in full, the government has paid half of the salaries for the month of August to around 10,000 teachers appointed under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).“After a wait for their pending salaries since August, we got 15-day salary for August a few days back. There is no information when the remaining amount would be released,” said a government school teacher.There are 14,090 SSA/RMSA teachers' posts out of which 4000 are still lying vacant. “Usually, our salaries are delayed by 3-4 months, but whenever government releases the pending salary for a month or two, it is always full salary for that month/months. This is the first time that we have got only a half-month salary,” said Gurpreet Singh, president of SSA/RMSA Teachers Union. Another leader said that their salaries are contributed by the state and center government in the ratio 65:35. “We have got information that the Centre had paid its share, but the state government was not releasing it for teachers,” he said.“All our festivals came and went without our salaries being paid. Now, the government has started this new trend of paying a month's salary in parts instead in one go,” said Tilak Raj, a teacher under SSA. Punjab DGSE Parshant Goyal did not answer calls.

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