Govt okays fixed pay for guest teachers

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government on Saturday said it will increase and fix the monthly salaries of guest teachers working with government schools, chief minister

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government on Saturday said it will increase and fix the monthly salaries of guest teachers working with government schools, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said.

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“Guest teachers, who are paid on a daily basis, effectively earn ₹17,000-20,000 per month. We have decided to increase their salary to ₹32,000-34,000 per month,” Kejriwal said on Saturday.

HT on Friday had reported that a high-level committee, set up by the government to look into the various demands of the guest teachers, has submitted its recommendations, including fixing salaries of teachers.

Kejriwal said the committee has submitted its recommendations and these will be placed before the cabinet .

The CM also said that a file pertaining to regularisation of guest teachers will be sent to the Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung for his approval after making changes.

There are around 16,000 guest teachers working in over 1,100 government schools.

The chief minister also said the government will install point of sale devices in all ration stores by March 31 next year to fix leakages in the system.

“In a meeting held yesterday (Friday) with the food department, planning department, IT Department and others, we set March 31, 2017, as our target for installation and stabilisation of these points of sale devices,” Kejriwal said.

The contract for this will be awarded within the next two months.

“These devices will be linked to Aadhaar cards and ration will only be given based on the biometric verification of consumers,” he said.

The CM said the move will help in weeding out fake ration cards and will put an end to leakages and theft of ration in the PDS.

Commenting on the L-G’s decision to dissolve the Delhi Wakf Board, Kejriwal said the move came because its chairman Amanatullah Khan was exposing scams in the board.