The Delhi government on Monday gave a nod to hike of upto hundred per cent in the salary of 282 language teachers in its schools. Heeding to the long-pending demand of the language teachers, the government brought their emoluments at par with their colleagues. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting presided by chief minister Sheila Dikshit.
These teachers had been employed by language academies in government schools as a part of language development programme.
“The Delhi Cabinet decided to hike monthly remuneration of 282 teachers deployed by the Language Academies in government schools,” Ms Dikshit told reporters here.
As per the government decision, a post graduate teacher (PGT) will get a monthly salary of `23,265 instead of current `13,160. The monthly salary of a trained graduate teacher (TGT) teacher has been fixed at `22,935 up from current `11,140.
The language teachers were appointed to teach Punjabi, Sanskrit and Urdu. They were engaged on part-time basis in 2002 and were made full-time teachers in 2008.
The Cabinet also allowed the retired teachers to retain government accommodation if they were again employed. The government had re-employed over 1,000 teachers last year for two years after their superannuation.
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North mayor orders probe in 2 graft cases
Age Correspondent
New Delhi, May 13
North Delhi Municipal Corporation mayor has ordered the municipal commissioner P.K. Gupta to conduct separate investigations into charges of corruption in two separate cases.
Asserting that 8,795 books purchased by the corporation for distribution to libraries and civic body schools in 2009-2010 were priced at a higher cost, Congress’ Mukesh Goel produced two books in the House and said, “Difference between the two books is that the one book was hard-bound while the other had a simple cover, and the difference in cost between the two books is over `160.”
Mr Goel also presented two parking tickets from Gandhi Maidan Parking at Chandni Chowk that allegedly showed that the contractors were charging `200 more from people for monthly parking.
The commissioner also came under flak for the slow pace of desilting of drains.
Leader of the House Mahendra Nagpal, who demanded a detailed debate on the issue, said the speed of work was too slow to meet the deadline of May 31 to remove 13,000 metric tonnes of silt.
“We have just one super sucker machine being shared for 15 days each by North and South Corporation. Even the suction machines are just five. There is simply not enough time to complete the work before the rains,” Nagpal said.