The Punjab government today decided to restore the pension of more than 3000 retired teaching as well as non-teaching employees of 95 per cent grant-in-aid private-aided schools.
Education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan said the previous Congress regime had stopped the pensions in 2003 of employees of private-aided schools who retired in year 2003 and afterwards, but the SAD-BJP government led by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had decided not only to restore their pensions, but also to enhance the pensions of those employees who had retired earlier.
He said Rs 40 crore has been released to pay the arrears of enhanced pension. Similarly, liability of Rs 287 crore has been worked out to pay pensions as well as arrears of pensions to more than 3,000 such employees, who were now being granted pensions.
Their arrears would be paid in five equal yearly instalments, Mr. Sekhwan said according to an official spokesman here.
He said the government was convinced that 95 per cent grant-in-aid to school teachers were entitled for pension in principle.
