N corpn teachers to get a month’s pay

Vibha Sharma | May 2, 2020, 04:43 IST

New Delhi: A day after North Delhi Municipal Corporation school teachers announced that they would go on mass leave on Monday to protest non-payment of salary for three months, the civic agency has decided to take a loan and disburse a month’s salary.
Following a meeting on Friday, north corporation commissioner Varsha Joshi tweeted: “Giving one-month salary to municipal teachers after taking a loan in view of the difficulties they are facing. Hoping our troubles will end soon. Trying hard for the same.”
While the salaries are expected to be credited in the employees’ accounts early next week, deliberative wing also assured the teachers association of arranging the remaining two months’ salary by next week.
“I request the teachers to cancel their mass leave decision at this crucial time when we have to work together to fight the pandemic. We give assurance that we all are raising your demands at every platform,” tweeted Jai Prakash, standing committee chairman.
East corporation officials, too, spoke to the teachers in their jurisdiction on Friday, to consider their demands for no deduction in travel allowance. The teachers also want that they should not be marked absent on days they could not reach schools due to the lockdown.
Teachers of schools in south and east corporations had also announced to join the north corporation teachers in the mass leave.
Later on Friday, the teachers associations decided to wait for another week and postponed the mass leave decision. “We will wait for next week and then take further decision,” said Kuldeep Khatri, president of Shikshak Nyay Manch Nagar Nigam.