Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 20: All Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh Teachers Federation, affiliated with Akhil Bharatiya Rashtariya Shakshik Mahasangh, has demanded removal of pay anomaly of Teachers and Masters.
In a statement, UT President AJKLTF/ABRSM, Devraj Thakur, said that their counterparts in rest of the Indian Union Territories are far ahead than them in terms of Grade Pay and other service benefits. He claimed that teachers in all other Union Territories of India are placed in Grade Pays between 4200 to 5000 whereas in Jammu and Kashmir, the same teacher is placed in Grade Pay of just 2800 with a huge difference and discrimination.
Thakur alleged that they were being discriminated upon by the Government by not addressing the “huge pay anomaly between several cadres in and outside the department”.
Thakur said that before the 6th Pay Commission, the Masters in School Education Department were getting salaries equal to the AAOs and SOs. “In the 6th Pay Commission, Pay grade the teachers were paid the Pay Band of Rs 5200-20200 with Grade Pay of Rs 2800/ which in the revised pay matrix as per seventh Pay Commission was fixed at the Basic Pay of Rs 29200. Pay grade of masters was fixed as 9300-34800+ GP 4280 whereas the pay Grade of the AAOs and SOs was fixed 9300-34800 + GP 4600. By fixing different pay grades for AAOs/ SOs and the Master, the latter have again been discriminated,” he explained and added that the said discrimination continued in 7th Pay Commission and the Masters were placed at level 6E which starts with Rs 35900 whereas the Masters deserved to be placed at level 7 which starts with Rs 44900.
AJKLTF leader appealed Lt Governor Manoj Sinha, Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary School Education Department, Chairman Pay Anomaly Committee J&K and the other officers to immediately address the long pending demands of teachers of J&K and bring them at par with Teachers of other UTs of India in respect of pay and grades.
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