TEAM HERALD
teamherald@herald-goa.com
PAN’JIM: Teachers who have joined aided schools in permanent posts are yet to receive their salaries despite having worked for nearly a year, with the school managements and the education department blaming each other for the mess.
The end result is that newly recruited teachers had to do go without salaries for the first year and in some cases more than a year.
The education department has, meanwhile said that all salaries will be disbursed by the end of the month which was due to procedural delays as well as the managements of schools delaying in sending the bills to the department.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the aggrieved teachers said that even if it was a six month delay, it could have been justified, as the government functioning is usually caught in red tape.
“We’ve been working for more than eight months now without pay,” a teacher said adding that first salary is always something special and eagerly awaited.
However, if the Deputy Director of Education Anil Powar is to be believed the teachers will get their salaries by the end of this month or latest by March.
“This problem is only faced by the aided schools and not by the government schools,” Powar told Herald.
Powar said that the issue was further delayed because the managements of schools did not take directions of the education department seriously.
“The managements took it very lightly when we told them that the medical test has to be done only by a government doctor at the district hospital. Many of the teachers had to then do their tests again,” Powar said because the reports sent were not from authorised doctors.
He also said that the managements were to blame for sending the bills late.
“This does not happen in the case of government schools. They have to do their medicals first and only then they are recruited. But in the cases of aided schools, they do their medicals only three months after joining,” Powar said.
“The school managements are to blame,” he said.
