Chandigarh's Samagra Shiksha staff await salary

Deepankar Sharda

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Chandigarh, February 27

The UT education department employees, working under the Samagra Shiksha scheme, are awaiting salaries for the past three months.

Thousands of junior basic training (JBT) and trained graduate teachers (TGT) have been working under the scheme that was introduced by the Central Government in 2018 to cater school education without segmentation from pre-nursery to Class XI.

Officials, however, said a process to release their salaries of two months – November and December – has started.

Meanwhile, much to the embarrassment, the employees have started getting emails from designated banks to pay a fine of Rs 100 as a No Salary Credit fee.

Harsuhinder Pal Singh Brar, Director School Education, on Tuesday said: “Salary is in the process of getting credited to school account. Funds are in the treasury so should be transferred anytime. I don’t know what emails from banks.”

Sources said the Central Government releases budget for the scheme thrice in a year. “The salaries are dispersed directly from the Central Government and there were some issues this year. However, it has been settled now. The teachers are expected to get two months salaries soon,” said an official of the department.

“On Monday, cluster heads were asked to prepare salaries (November and December) as per the old structure (34% in Samagra Shiksha staff) and send it to the SPO office…,” the official said.