Teachers up in arms against Punjab Government for paying low salaries

Ludhiana, October 4

The joint action committee of the Punjab Education Services Officers/Principals and Headmasters is sore over state government’s lackadaisical approach towards their grievances.

Committee members during a meeting held here rued that recently Finance Minister Manpreet Badal had announced that employees in Punjab were paid best salaries as compared to other states. Members said the fact was that they were being paid even less than employees working in UP and Bihar.

On top of it, the state government had no time to listen to the plight of the cadre, members added. Punjab was celebrating its first position in performance Grading Index Survey and boasting of progress in government schools while persons, who put their maximum efforts in the cause, were neglected by the ruling dispensation, said members. PES officers said due to negligence of the staff concerned, the Fifth Pay Commission was not implemented properly for them.

They had been demanding to remove this pay-parity among departments, but the government was in no mood to listen to them, they added. — TNS