Education
Bihar to challenge HC order on equal pay for contract teachers
Patna, Nov 2 (IANS) The Bihar governnment on Thursday decided to move the Supreme Court against the Patna High Court order on equal pay for equal work to thousands of schoolteachers hired on contract in the state.
Education Department Principal Secretary R.K. Mahajan gave information to the media here in this regard.
Education Minister Krishnandan Verma held a meeting with top officials after the Patna High Court’s order on Tuesday, wherein officials told him that the Education Department will have to spend Rs 15,000 more per teacher in case the state government went ahead to ensure pay parity to nearly 3.5 lakh schoolteachers working on contract, informed sources said.
The High Court had ordered that the demand of contractual schoolteachers for equal salaries for equal work was right and had to be met.
The contractual teachers had earlier staged protests in support of their demand for parity in salaries with government teachers.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had expressed disappointment over the protests and said their salary parity demand would not be met.
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Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal shared that the construction work of six nursing colleges in the state will be completed soon and classes will commence in the month of July. Not only this, the new building of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula has also completed its construction work.
Adding on to this, he shared that, till now, the classes are being held in another building, the chief secretary said while presiding over the review meeting of development projects worth more than Rs 100 crore here.
CHIEF SECRETARY REVIEWED MAJOR PROJECTS
The Chief Secretary reviewed several major projects, including power, health, medical, and technical education in the state, and directed the concerned officials to complete them within the stipulated time period.
COLLEGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
He said that the construction of nursing colleges in Dherdu village of Kaithal, Khedi Ram Nagar village of Kurukshetra, Kheranwali village of Panchkula, Aura and Dayalpur village of Faridabad, and Sadatpur village of Rewari is under construction.
The construction work of Medical college in Koriawas in Narnaul, Medical College at Jind, Bhiwani, and Dental College at Nalhar is being completed at a fast pace. The work of the second phase of Kalpana Chawla Medical College is also undergoing.
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