Pension scheme: Teachers to stage demonstration

MEMBERS OF UP Intermediate Teachers Association (Thakurai group) organised a conference to chalk-out the strategies for statewide agitation against the State Government?s move to withdraw pension scheme for the teachers and employees appointed after 2005. State president of the association Jagdish Pandey Thakurai said the Union Government had decided to withdraw the pension scheme following pressures from the World Bank and other capitalist forces.

MEMBERS OF UP Intermediate Teachers Association (Thakurai group) organised a conference to chalk-out the strategies for statewide agitation against the State Government’s move to withdraw pension scheme for the teachers and employees appointed after 2005. State president of the association Jagdish Pandey Thakurai said the Union Government had decided to withdraw the pension scheme following pressures from the World Bank and other capitalist forces.

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Pandey said that the employees would oppose the proposal as after retirement they would lose their economic support. He said the Union government had planned to introduce the scheme in April 1, 2004 while state government was planning to implement the scheme from April 1, 2005.

He further said that under this scheme, 10 per cent dearness allowance would be charged from the employees which would be deposited in his account and it would be termed as pension tier account.

He stressed the need to introduce common school system to bring similarity in the education and exhorted the teachers and employees to extend their full support for the movement to oppose the proposal of the government.

Delivering his views, JP Nayak said that in the first step, the teachers and employees would gherao the State Assembly on July 25 in Lucknow and the agitation would continue till withdrawal of the proposal .