Sameer Singh
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, January 2
Members of the Computer Teachers’ Union, Punjab, have written an open letter to Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana and President Ram Nath Kovind requesting their intervention in the matter where they alleged that the state government did not provide them with benefits of regular employees though their services were regularised way back in 2011.
Notably, there are more than 7,200 computer teachers recruited under the Punjab Information and Communication Technology Education Society (PICTES) initiative who have been serving in government schools across the state for the past more than 16 years now. Recruited in 2005 by the state government, their services were regularised in 2011.
Jonny Singla, a union leader, said: “Despite taking up the matter with the state government and the High Court on numerous occasions for the past many years, there was no satisfactory outcome. We have now written an open letter to the Chief Justice of India and the President of India, requesting them to fulfil our long-pending demands.”
“The government has also not provided us with the benefits of the Sixth Pay Commission Report. Moreover, benefits under the Punjab Civil Services Rules are also not being provided to us. We have been rendering our services in several schools across the state for the past many years but despite regularising our services in 2011, we have not been given complete benefits to date,” the union leader said.
Paramvir Singh, another union leader, said: “We have worked in tandem with the state Health Department during Covid and many computer teachers have also died during the period but unlike other regular government employees, there is no provision of any compensation or relief to the families of deceased. There is no increment on our salaries and even medical reimbursement and provision of employment to kin in case of death of an employee is not there.”
Regularised in 2011, teachers yet to benefit
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