Teachers want services regularised

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 26

The meeting of the general body of the Government Teacher’s Union (Democratic), UT, Chandigarh, was held on Saturday at Masjid Ground, Sector 20, Chandigarh, under the presidentship of Dr Dhermender.

Over 400 contractual, SSA, computers and special trained teachers working in various schools of the Chandigarh Administration participated. The teachers are demanding regularisation of service on the pattern of The Punjab Ad Hoc, Contractual, Daily Wage, Temporary, Work Charged and Outsourced Employees Welfare Act 2016. Several modalities were discussed and debated in the meeting.

Dr Dhermender said, “1,200 teachers of the SSA and 180 contract teachers in the cadre of JBT, TGT, lecturers are working in the city schools for the last 12-15 years on contract-basis. The Education Department, Chandigarh, has not yet formulated the policy to regularise the service of these teachers.”

“These teachers have been deprived of various service benefits given to regular employee in the same cadre. As a result, they are not entitled to medical reimbursement, leave encashment, gratuity, pension after retirement, commutation etc,” he said.

He further informed that there is another category of teachers called special trained teachers working in the city schools for the last eight years.

“There are 180 such teachers. They have been allocated work to conduct surveys in the colonies of Chandigarh to find dropout students so that these deprived students can be sent to the nearest school and taught till they achieve basic learning skills. If these teachers fail to find the requisite number of dropout students, their services may also be terminated without serving any notice, which is a contravention to the fundamental right enshrined in the Article 21 Protection of Life and Personal Liberty,” said Dr Dhermender adding that these teachers were being paid Rs 11,000 per month for 11 month in a year which was also unfair. Later, the members of the GTU Democratic decided to submit a representation to the Chandigarh administration.