CAT relief for computer teachers

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 21

The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) today stayed an order of the Education Department to relieve computers teachers. It has fixed October 27 as the next date of hearing on their petition.

The computer teachers, who were working in government schools in the city for years, had approached CAT through counsel Beant Singh Seemar against the order issued on October 1.

Seemar said CAT stayed the order directing the department not to replace them by way of new appointments.

The computer teachers were sacked after the Administration outsourced their service to a private company. Earlier, the teachers were working on a contract basis.

The teachers also complained to the Administration that they had not received salary for four months.

More than 150 computer teachers have been working on a contract basis since 2008. They were selected in 2008 by a UT agency, Society for Promotion of IT in Chandigarh (SPIC).