Fighting for rights: Headmasters and teachers of higher secondary schools at the demonstration in Cuddalore on Wednesday.
CUDDALORE:
Headmasters and headmistresses of government-run and aided higher secondary schools and postgraduate teachers staged a demonstration in front of the Collectorate here on Wednesday, calling for removal of the anomaly in pay structure recommended by the Sixth Pay Commission.
Headed by S. Perumalraj, the demonstration was launched by S. Kamaraj, State Law Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Post-Graduate Teachers' Association. The protestors alleged that the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission in connection with the pay structure of headmasters and postgraduate teachers were not on a par with that of those in Central government services.
The anomaly was glaring in the pay structure between graduate teachers and postgraduate teachers. Following representations made by the aggrieved teachers, a one-man committee was formed to go into the issue. However, the report of the committee had also not done justice to headmasters and postgraduate teachers, the protestors said. This was because, instead of removing the pay disparity, it had widened it.
In other words, the report had raised the salary structure of 65 categories of employees, who were earlier put on equal footing with headmasters and postgraduate teachers. The committee had also recommended a special allowance of Rs. 500 to headmasters of middle schools and high schools. Therefore, to voice their protest against such an “indifferent attitude of the authorities to their rightful plea,” the joint action council of the higher secondary school headmasters and postgraduate teachers had decided to lay siege to the Directorate of School Education at Chennai from November 22 to 26.
The protestors also demanded a separate directorate for higher secondary education, increasing compensation for evaluation of answer sheets of public examinations and deletion of words “merit and ability” for promotion of teachers as headmasters in government aided schools.
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