SSA staff seek leave policy on par with Punjab employees

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 13 

The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Teachers’ Welfare Association (SSATWA), Chandigarh, today demanded that leave policy on the lines of the Punjab Government be adopted for teaching and non-teaching staff under the SSA.

Members of the association met Director School Education (DSE) Rubinderjit Singh Brar over the issue.

On October 17, the Punjab Government had adopted a new leave policy under which teachers and employees working under the SSA are provided leaves similar to regular teachers working under the state budget. Male teachers are given 10 casual leaves up to service of 10 years, 15 leaves up to 15 years and 20 days per year after the completion of 20 years, whereas female teachers are given 20 casual leaves per year.

Also eight earned leaves are given per year and 15 half pay leaves are given which can be commuted on medical grounds. On the demand of the association, the DSE agreed to add it as an agenda so that it could be tabled in the coming meeting of the Executive Committee, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Society, to be held on December 21 for approval.

“We have quoted Section 20 of the non-negotiable central RTE rules which are automatically applicable to the UT, Chandigarh. But Chandigarh is yet to implement the Section 20 of RTE rules on teachers. The rules clearly state that if qualification, work and experience are same, salary, allowances and service conditions of the teachers shall also be same,” said Association president Arvind Rana