ETT teachers want disbursal of salaries pending for 3 months

Bathinda, February 18

ETT teachers of the district, who have not not been paid salaries for the past three months, met ADC Shena Aggarwal and submitted a memorandum of demands to her.

A delegation of teachers was led by ETT Teachers’ Union president Jagsir Sahota.

Elaborating on their demands, the teachers stated that they had not received salaries since December 2017. Since some of the teachers were the sole breadwinners of their families, they were finding it hard to make both ends meet, they said.

They said ever since their recruitment, they worked under the Panchayati Raj from 2006 to 2014 and giving in to their long protest, the then state government merged the ETT teachers with the state Education Department on October 7, 2014.

“ETT teachers of Rampura and Bhucho blocks are yet to get their salary for seven days of October 2014 for which they worked under the Panchayati Raj. The instalments of CPF for three years have also not been released,” Sahota said.

He said though they were brought under the state Education Department in 2014, the department was meting out stepmotherly treatment to the ETT teachers as they were yet to be given permanent centres like the regular teachers under the Education Department.

The teachers announced that in case the department continued to ignore their demands, they would have to take to roads and protest in support of their demands. — TNS