PATNA: Additional chief secretary of education department RK Mahajan on Wednesday asked the district education officers (DEOs) and district programme officers (DPOs) to withhold salaries of government schoolteachers who have been on strike since February 17 in support of their eight-point charter of demands.
Mahajan said the department had already told the protesting teachers that it would adopt ‘no pay for no work’ policy if they refuse to join duty. “Teachers who are not participating in the strike will continue to get their salaries,” Mahajan added.
State project director of Bihar Education Project Council Sanjay Kumar Singh said the government would release the salaries of the teachers if they resume work. “However, the teachers will not be paid for the number of days they were on strike,” Singh added.
Meanwhile, home department secretary Amir Subhani on Wednesday asked district magistrates and senior police officers to provide security to the DEOs in view of the protests by contractual and some permanent teachers under the banner of Bihar Rajya Shikshak Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti. Several protesting teachers had earlier attacked Patna DEO Jyoti Kumar over the termination of two regular teachers.
A contractual teacher was arrested in Begusarai on Wednesday for attacking the DEO and ransacking office property.
Meanwhile, 73 examinees were expelled for using unfair means across the state and two impersonators arrested in Madhubani district on the third day of Matriculation examinations on Wednesday.
Altogether 17 students were expelled in Bhojpur, nine in Madhubani, seven in Nalanda, six in Jamui, four each in Gaya, Madhepura and Siwan, three each in Munger, Khagaria, Vaishali, Rohtas and Saran, two in Supaul and one each in Banka, Samastipur, Buxar, Arwal and Purnia.
Around 15.29 lakh candidates, including 7.82 lakh girls, wrote social science papers in two sittings on Wednesday.
Education minister Krishna Nandan Prasad Verma visited some exam centres in Patna. Bihar School Examination Board chairman Anand Kishor also visited several exam centres and frisked the students.
Mahajan said the department had already told the protesting teachers that it would adopt ‘no pay for no work’ policy if they refuse to join duty. “Teachers who are not participating in the strike will continue to get their salaries,” Mahajan added.
State project director of Bihar Education Project Council Sanjay Kumar Singh said the government would release the salaries of the teachers if they resume work. “However, the teachers will not be paid for the number of days they were on strike,” Singh added.
Meanwhile, home department secretary Amir Subhani on Wednesday asked district magistrates and senior police officers to provide security to the DEOs in view of the protests by contractual and some permanent teachers under the banner of Bihar Rajya Shikshak Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti. Several protesting teachers had earlier attacked Patna DEO Jyoti Kumar over the termination of two regular teachers.
A contractual teacher was arrested in Begusarai on Wednesday for attacking the DEO and ransacking office property.
Meanwhile, 73 examinees were expelled for using unfair means across the state and two impersonators arrested in Madhubani district on the third day of Matriculation examinations on Wednesday.
Altogether 17 students were expelled in Bhojpur, nine in Madhubani, seven in Nalanda, six in Jamui, four each in Gaya, Madhepura and Siwan, three each in Munger, Khagaria, Vaishali, Rohtas and Saran, two in Supaul and one each in Banka, Samastipur, Buxar, Arwal and Purnia.
Around 15.29 lakh candidates, including 7.82 lakh girls, wrote social science papers in two sittings on Wednesday.
Education minister Krishna Nandan Prasad Verma visited some exam centres in Patna. Bihar School Examination Board chairman Anand Kishor also visited several exam centres and frisked the students.
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