Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 19: Teachers working under centrally sponsored scheme Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) today protested against the delay in the release of their salaries.
The protesters under the banner of SSA Teachers Association said they have not received salary for the past five to six months which has plunged their families on the verge of starvation. “Government is playing with the future of thousands of SSA teachers who are without any salary for last 4-5 months. This delay has badly affected our families”, a protester said.
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Shah Fayaz, a spokesperson of JKSSA Teachers Association said, “the Government has several times claimed that their salaries had been delinked and would be released monthly but the claims have fallen flat as we have not received our wages from past five months. They have failed to streamline our salaries”.
He added that there were nearly fifty thousand SSA teachers working with the Education Department, “almost 50% of the staff of primary and middle schools are SSA teachers. If Government wants that schools should function properly they should streamline our salaries,” he said.
The protesters said they would intensify the protests if their demands were not met, “If the release of SSA salary is not streamlined soon we will launch a statewide protest”, a protester said.
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