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| Salaries denied for 5 months, families of RAMSA teachers on verge of starvation | | Financial crunch apart, their cases ruined during NC-Cong regime | | 'Govt will wake up when we commit suicide
like farmers’
Early Times Report
jammu, July 1: Families of thousands of teachers working under RAMSA scheme of Union government are on verge of starvation as bread earners have not been paid salaries for over five months, thanks to lopsided policies of education ministry during the NC-Congress regime compounded by financial crunch in the present dispensation which have pushed them to the brink of committing suicide.
Sources said the case and cause of majority of these highly qualified teachers has been ruined and messed up badly by the authorities in Education department during erstwhile coalition. Pursuing a flawed policy and concept for a deliberate motive, the previous education ministry not only violated the guidelines and rules of the scheme but committed gross injustice with these teachers in more than one way, sources said , adding that most of these teachers who are now suffering for want of timely disbursal of salaries have been hand picked from various schools across the state and adjusted under RAMSA scheme.
Sources further said while many controversial things happened in the Education department during the period when Tara Chand was the Education minister in the state, this wrong was done in complete violation of the rules. The government was actually required to appoint PG teachers under the scheme and instead of doing so the authorities in almost directionless manner ordered transfers of PG level teachers from different schools and posted them against RAMSA vacancies. These teachers were actually uprooted from their original posts and adjusted under RAMSA in various districts across the state, sources said adding that the unsystematic transfers and postings ruined their cases by way of not just arbitrary and random adjustments in terms of subject wise masters needed in the schools, but also messed up their actual grades and pay scales. It is pertinent to say that teachers in the education department get their salaries from state plan and under RAMSA
salaries are released from central schemefunds.
While the salaries so withheld due to cash crunch is making these teachers and their families suffer badly, the policy inconsistent with the rules followed during the period of Tara Chand at helm of affairs has also affected them monetarily as they are being denied due grades and scales, sources said while explaining various cases. The PG teachers of master grade are actually entitled to a pay grade of around Rs 38000 but consequent upon their adjustments under RAMSA they are facing hitches and hiccups in getting their due as teachers appointed under RAMSA all across the country are getting only Rs 27-28000 as a uniform grade, something on which the Central government too has put its foot down firmly, for they do not know the cases of these teachers have been bungled and spoilt deliberately by the state authorities.
While the existing Education minister Nayeem Akhtar despite being erudite, wise and just in comparison to his predecessors is silent about this disparity and injustice which has been intensified due to denial of salaries for five months, the elected representatives too have failed to rake up their cause and plight. One of the teachers appointed in a school in Rajouri district whose family conditions have turned pathetic due to his inability to meet the expenditures of even normal life , in a state of desperation had contacted Vibodh Gupta , the MLA few days back with a hope of some help and access to higher authorities. "He did not even bother to listen, leave alone offering some help….", he said. The teacher wishing anonymity for obvious reasons said that the condition of majority of his colleagues under RAMSA has deteriorated for all their savings have exhausted and they are unable to provide even normal meals to families. "Our plight is akin to the farmers who remained unheard by the government until many of them committed suicides ……the government is forcing us to take that step and if things continue to persist we may follow farmers' way…", he said while narrating his tale to ET. |
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