Not paid salaries for 8 months, Adarsh School staff protest

Tribune News Service

Moga, March 26

Teachers of Adarsh Government School, Manawan, in Moga district on Tuesday staged a protest against the state government and the institute management for failing to give them salaries for the past eight months.

It was earlier run by Baba Ishar Singh Group of Institutions but in September 2018, the state government handed it over to Shaheed Udham Singh Education and Welfare Society.

Deepak Sharma, a teacher working in the adarsh school while talking to The Tribune alleged, “The school management did not send the bills to the state government for the release of funds for salaries.”

The Shaheed Udham Singh Education and Welfare Society took over the affairs of the school on September 6, 2018. The society paid the salary for the month of September for 24 days. Since then, it has not paid a single penny to more than 40 teachers and other employees of the school. Besides, the teachers said the BIS Group of Institutions used to pay them a salary of Rs 18,000 per month, but the new managing society had decreased their salary to Rs 16,500 per month.

A protesting teacher said the attendance register of the school too had been recently taken away by the management. The matter was brought to the notice of the district administration, but no action has been taken.

The state government, through the Punjab Education Development Board, has been running 26 Adarsh Schools in the state through the public private partnership (PPP) mode for over 10 years.

‘Bills not sent to govt’

Teachers of Adarsh Government School, Manawan, in Moga district alleged that the school management had not sent bills to the state government to seek the release of funds for salaries.