Double part-time teachers demand regularisation

PANJIM, JAN 18
Around 60 double part-time teachers appointed in vocational stream of various aided higher secondaries, who have been employed for the last 16 years, have once again called for regularisation of their services.
On Monday a group of these teachers met the Education Minister Babush Monserrate at the Secretariat in Porvorim and placed their grievances before him. The minister assured them he would look into the matter as soon as the file pertaining to their matter is placed before him. 
The teachers, majority of who are post-graduates and have completed their Bachelor of Education feel cheated as they are paid a consolidated salary of Rs 11,750. “We have started feeling the pinch because a good part of our salary is spent on travelling expenses,” they mentioned.
They are demanding benefits accrued to the contract teachers, who are given the privilege of regularisation after completion of five years in service. If contract teachers can be regularised after five years, we should at least be given the benefits what they get, they stated.
The teachers further argued that their work load was equivalent to that of the contract teachers in the vocational stream. The part-time teachers for the last seven to eight years have been carrying out Board work like paper setting and correction, they added.
They said unlike the full-time teachers who enjoy the benefit of casual leave, earned leave, sick leave, etc., none of these is available to them. On the other had if we remain absent for whatever reason there is a cut in salary for that particular day, they rued.