TEAM HERALD
MARGAO: The Higher Secondary School Teachers’ Association Go has decided to petition to the Seventh Pay Commission to take into consideration Higher Secondary School Teachers’ Pay – scales in the State of Goa.
At the Sunday annual General Body meeting of HISTAG presided over by its President, Beena S. Naik, the Association has decided to acquaint the Commission about the discrepancy that has resulted on account of 10 plus 2 plus 3 scheme which resulted in demotion of Higher Secondary School teachers. “Teachers who were a part of College system earlier were not only demoted but deprived of their various upward promotions. Due to this scheme the teachers were not only demoted and deprived but were also demoralized”, she said, adding that the government should try to put the higher secondary teaches into a separate scale/category in order to boost the morale of the higher secondary teachers.
Naik said that HISTAG was happy to note that the ex- Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar accepted the demand for scrapping of restricted criteria of 20% for the grant of Selection Scale, and accordingly made a statement to that effect ,in his budget speech, during the last budget session.
HISTAG in their meeting passed a resolution to congratulate the new CM, Laxmikant Parsekar and hoped that he would understand the issues related to education better, he being himself a teacher.
