All-India Kendriya Vidyalaya teachers’ plea for salary arrears

Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) teachers are on the warpath against what they describe as the discriminatory treatment being meted out to them.

N. Sadanandan, regional secretary of the All India Kendriya Vidyalaya Teachers Association, said on Friday that the 45,000 teaching and non-teaching staff of around 1,000 Kendriya Vidyalayas under the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan were yet to get salary arrears.

He said that the Central government employees had received 40 per cent of salary arrears in cash as per the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission and were about to receive the remaining 60 per cent.

The delay in giving 40 per cent of the salary arrears to teachers was a violation of the Centre’s decision to disburse it this financial year itself.

He said that institutions like Navodaya and Sainik Schools had implemented the pay revision in toto and had disbursed the salary arrears. “Those at the helm of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan are more interested in making fresh appointments and transfers. They are not doing anything for the institution’s smooth functioning or for the welfare of the employees,” he alleged.

He warned of a country-wide agitation if the Centre and the Human Resources Ministry did not change their attitude towards the employees of the Kendriya Vidyalayas.

Source : The Hindu.