Staff Reporter
It is one of the recommendations
of the panel
‘Government has not acted on the report’
BANGALORE: The Karnataka State Primary School Teachers’ Association on Thursday urged the Government to immediately implement the final report of the Fifth Pay Commission, which has recommended a special pay scale for primary school teachers.
Addressing presspersons here, association president Basavaraja Gurikar said that the commission had recommended to the Government to grant a special pay scale of Rs. 6,800 – Rs. 13,000 for primary school teachers instead of the regular pay scale of Rs. 6,250 – Rs. 12,000. This was in view of the special responsibilities these teachers had to discharge. Though the commission had done justice to the long-pending demands of primary school teachers, the Government had not acted on the report for over three months, Mr. Gurikar said. The association had urged the Government to implement the special pay scale to other categories of primary school teachers, including physical education, craft, music, drawing, Hindi and nursery education, he said.
With regard to cluster schools, the association had asked the Government to appoint non-graduate headmasters of primary schools as headmasters instead of headmasters of high schools. As cluster schools comprise majority of primary schools, headmaster of a primary school would be of greater use, Mr. Gurikar said. The association also drew the Government’s attention towards the alleged discrepancies in the promotion of graduate primary school teachers with B. Ed., qualification to high schools.
