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| During pandemic maximum profit only concern for pvt schools | | Charging fee from every student but not paying salary to each staff member | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 14: The private schools management which had got permission from government and charged fee from each student for the lockdown months have refused to pay salary to all the staff members engaged by them.
Such a dual yardstick signals towards the lone motive of these schools to gain profit even during the time of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
The teachers engaged in private schools informed Early Times that the private schools management had pleaded before the government for charging the fee for the months of lockdown. The key plea put forth by the private schools management was that they have to pay salary to the staff members including teachers, clerical staff, watch and ward staff in the schools. The government had accepted their demands and allowed them to charge the fee.
The teachers informed that at one hand the schools management have charged fee from all the students but when it came to pay salary to the teaching as well as non-teaching staff, the management adopted a selected approach.
“A few teachers, who had been serving the schools for the last many couple of years have been allowed by the schools’ management to take online classes or send online lessons to the students, while the teachers who had been working for the last few years were not asked to take classes”, a teacher said, adding that over 30-40 percent staff members were denied salary by the private schools management.
The teachers are so reluctant that they could not raise voice against such discriminatory attitude of the management or pleaded before the management to pay them salaries. “The private school management usually pay peanuts to the teaching as well as non-teaching staff but in return demand excess work but during COVID-19 restrictions when these teachers have nowhere to go they were denied the salaries. Without salaries, it is very difficult for the private school teachers to make both ends meet without salaries but the private schools management is only concerned about their own benefits and profit and during emergency they disown the teachers”, a teacher said, adding that in many cases the schools management have also reduced the salaries of teaching as well as non-teaching staff.
The non-teaching staff members are usually engaged in the private schools on temporary basis and are paid as per their work. During lockdown, the services of non-teaching staff was not taken by the private schools management so they are also not paid any salary, a private school teacher said.
The teachers have appealed the LG led administration to check the records of the private schools about payment to the staff. “If these schools can charge full fee from the students then why they have been hesitating to pay the salaries”, a teacher said. |
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