02/01/2009

School teachers threaten strike in Bihar

 

Patna, (Bihar Times): Thousands of teaching and non-teaching staff of government schools of Bihar on Friday threatened to go on an indefinite strike after January 16 if the Bihar government failed to rectify their pay anomalies.

The General Secretary of the Joint Action Committee, Munshi Prasad Singh, said the teaches have fixed January 15 as the deadline to remove the pay anomalies in the salary structure and to implement the Sixth Pay Panel recommendations in totality.

Singh said over one lakh teaching and non-teaching employees, besides semi-government employees including newly appointed teachers of primary and secondary schools would demonstrate on January 16 to press their demands. The non-gazetted employees have already threatened to launch their stir from January 7.

“If our genuine demands are not met by the time, we will be forced to proceed on an indefinite strike for which the responsibility will lie on the government,” JAC President Shatrughan Prasad Singh said.


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