The Legislative Assembly on Tuesday adopted three Bills, including the Karnataka Private Aided Educational Institutions Employees (Regulation of Pay, Pension and other benefits) Bill 2014, the Karnataka Legislature Salaries, Pensions and Allowances (Amendment) Bill 2014 and the Karnataka Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Bill.
Except the Karnataka Private Educational Institutions Employees Bill 2014, the other two had an easy passage.
ApplicabilityHigher Education Minister R.V. Deshpande, who moved the Private Educational Institutions Employees Bill, stated that salary and pension and other benefits of teachers in government aided educational institutions would be applicable only from the date on which they are brought under the grant-in-aid scheme.
The Minister also said that though the Supreme Court had ruled in favour of teachers, the government was not in a position to bear the expenditure of Rs. 4,650 crore.
‘Hypothetical’Discounting the Opposition’s apprehensions over employees approaching the Supreme Court as “hypothetical”, Mr. Deshpande said that the court’s verdict was in favour of the teachers in the absence of clear-cut rules from when the grant-in-aid scheme became effective for private institutions.
