Salaries hiked from ₹ 16k to ₹ 25k
Striking contract teachers withdraw strike after CM hands order increasing remuneration
Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant met the striking All Goa Contract Teachers today and handed over the order mentioning a hike in the monthly remuneration from the existing Rs 16,000 to 25,000. The teachers have withdrawn the strike temporarily.
“Our government has done everything that we can to help the teachers, and I cannot see teachers striking. Today I have presented them the order which mentions a hike in the monthly remuneration from the existing Rs 16,000 to 25,000,” said CM Sawant.
He further said that some people and politicians who came to meet the striking teachers have been creating doubts in their minds.
“We have raised their salary to Rs 25,000 and the work period is extended from 10 months to 12 months. There are 400 to 500 para teachers, lecture-based teachers to part-time teachers serving in various schools of Goa. We have created a common nomenclature for them as contract teachers, and their salaries have been raised to Rs 25,000 with an annual increment. We will give them priority wherever possible,” the Chief Minister said.
Teachers who were protesting said that some teachers have been working in government schools for the last 17 years. However, they get barely Rs 150 per lecture.
“We hardly get four lectures per day, and we get only Rs 150 per lecture. So, our monthly income is very less, and it is difficult for us to sustain our livelihood in these difficult times,” they said.
Teachers also informed that there are 200-odd teachers teaching students from Std 8 to Std 10 in around 70 government schools.
