Teachers without salaries from 5 months in Bandipora
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Their wages will be released in few days: CEOMir Tariq Bandipora, July 17: Hundreds of teachers in various zones in this newly created district are without salary since past five months.The teachers of various educational zones including Quil, Hajin and Bandipora have not received the salaries from past five months. This has created resentment against the education department among the teachers, who claimed that the department is intentionally withholding their salaries.
“From past five months we have not been paid salary by the department. We have approached almost all the concerned officials but of no avail. They continue to withhold our salaries,” said a teacher, Meharjudin Wani.He said that the teachers are suffering a great deal as they are unable to fulfill the requirements of their families. “Our families are starving due to withholding of wages to us,” he added. Another teacher, pleading anonymity criticized the functioning of the Education department. He said, “Despite repeated requests to the officials, our from March to July has not bee released”.The District Teachers Union (DTU) leaders claimed that hundreds of teachers working in various Schools of the district have been denied salaries by the Education department. They urged the government to make arrangements for the timely disbursement of salaries.“ReT teachers are facing lot of problems due to non disbursement of salaries. The government should make proper arrangement for disbursing wages in favor of the teachers,” said one of the leaders of DTU.“We are getting a meager salary of Rs 2,000. We were somehow managing our family affairs but since past five months we have been facing starvation as our salaries have been withheld,” said ReT teacher, Muhammad Shafi. He added, “The shopkeepers are refusing to give us further credit and our wards have been thrown out from the schools due to non payment of their tuition fee”.Talking to Rising Kashmir Chief Education Officer Ghulam Mahiudin Ahanger said, “We have received an order from Secretariat through the Direction Office and pending salaries of the teachers would be released within next few days.”He added, “We have asked officials of all the respective zones to release the salaries of the teachers.”