Under increasing pressure from various groups representing the surplus teaching and non-teaching staff in the state, education minister Vinod Tawde has announced that the salaries of the staff would b
Under increasing pressure from various groups representing the surplus teaching and non-teaching staff in the state, education minister Vinod Tawde has announced that the salaries of the staff would be paid through the offline mode till March 2015. However, MLC Kapil Patil from the teachers’ constituency has said that the government should pay salaries of subject teachers through the online mode, as a safety for the jobs of such teachers.
According to the circular issued by the school education department earlier in 2014, surplus teaching and non-teaching staff were to be accommodated in other schools till December, 2014 and till the process was completed, the surplus staff would be paid salaries through the offline mode. Working employees get their salaries through the online mode.
However, as nearly 3,000 staffers are yet to be accommodated, the department decided to extend the date till March 2015 and till this was done the salaries would be paid through the offline mode.
Mr Patil, however, said that if the surplus staff was not being employed till March 2015, there was a doubt whether the government would keep them on their payroll and hence demanded that at least the surplus subject teachers should be given salaries through the online mode.
“Subject teachers are required in one school or the other. In case if the government decides to retrench the surplus staff after March 2015, these teachers will have their jobs secured as they are on the regular payroll of the government,” said Mr Patil.
