For primary school teachers, this hike will come into effect with retrospective effect from January 1. As per the decision, the contractual junior teachers who are getting salary of Rs 7,400 per month will now get Rs 11,000 per month. Similarly, the salary of junior teachers has been increased from Rs 9,200 to Rs 13,800.
This decision of the government will help 13,324 contractual junior teachers and 19,714 junior teachers in the state. An additional expenditure of Rs 168 crore will be incurred annually on the state exchequer for the increased salary of these junior teachers.
The move comes three days after the government implemented the Seventh Pay Commission, covering nearly 42,000 teaching and non-teaching programs in newly aided non-government high schools, upper primary (ME) schools, madrassas and aided non-government colleges. There has been an increase in the wages of the employees.
About 26,164 teaching and non-teaching staff of non-government high schools, UP (ME) schools and madrasas, which are receiving 100 per cent grant-in-aid, will benefit from such an increase. Similarly, around 15,664 teaching and non-teaching staff of aided colleges will get such enhanced financial benefits, official sources said.
Teachers and non-teaching staff have been demanding revised salary for the last four years. Earlier, they were receiving grants-in-aid as per the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.
The enhanced grant-in-aid will be implemented from January 1, 2018, while the actual enhanced financial benefit will be effective from January 1, 2022.
The state government has regularized the jobs of 8,102 contract junior teachers on the new year. The teachers had staged an indefinite sit-in at the Lower PMG here during the winter session of the state assembly demanding regularization of their jobs.
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