Team Herald
PONDA: Peons of government aided primary schools here have given a fifteen-day ultimatum to the government to implement the Seventh Commission pay scale benefits to them and have threatened to approach the Court if they were not implemented within a fortnight.
They charged that it’s five years now that their dues have been pending and added that the government had done grave injustice by sidelining them.
The class IV employees demanded that the 7th Pay Commission should be implemented immediately to over two hundred peons in the government aided primary schools and added that they had long back submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant and the Director of Education Department, however their pleas have fallen on deaf ears till date.
“The 7th Pay Commission is applicable to teachers in government-aided primary schools, so why not us,” they wondered.
Apart from doing the work of peons, we also accompany children to hospitals if they get injured while playing, clean the classrooms and distribute mid-day meals to students, they said.
The peons in government aided primary schools fall into ‘D’ category.
“Most of the employees working as peons belong to Scheduled Castes, Tribes and Other Backward Classes and are from poor households,” they said and demanded that the government implement the benefits to them for their honest service.
