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Teachers at pvt school unpaid for months, hope for govt intervention

New Delhi: With the tussle between the government and its school teachers over unpaid salaries for months, private school teachers are in a similar soup in the Capital. Teachers of the Guru Harkrishan Public School have not been receiving salaries for the last four months with some of them protesting outside its Loni Road branch since September 21. Private school teachers have now pinned their hopes on some kind of intervention from the Delhi government.

General Secretary of Guru Harkrishan Public School Staff Welfare Association, Jaswant Kaur, said that some teachers had received 60 per cent of their salary while the TDS is deducted on 100 per cent and others have seen a consistent decline from 60 to 20 per cent of the salary. The Association has 250 members and has been protesting since September 21, demanding full pay.

Jagwant Kaur, a private school teacher, has received only 20 per cent of her salary in the last four months. She lost her 62-year-old husband, last week to COVID-19, who was a retired bank manager. She sought financial help from the management, the government and the society but no one came forward.

After completing the last rites of her husband, she now plans to join the protest at Loni Road. Kaur is an art teacher for classes 6-10 and has been receiving Rs 20,000 since June although her salary is around Rs 60,000 according to the 6th pay commission.

When Millennium Post spoke to General Secretary of Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee, Harmeet Singh, he said that more than Rs 20 crore has been given to the schools from the committee within the last six months. The Committee is a parent body for the 12 Guru Harkrishan Public Schools in the city.

"We are short on funds as well," he said, adding that the state government has directed private schools to not enforce school fee collection from parents which has created trouble for schools who find it difficult to gather funds in these tough times while the Committee's funds have also seen a steady decline.

When questioned about the reserved funds that schools put aside for rainy days like these, he said that those funds were disbursed when the Committee was formed and the expenses are more than the revenue generated.

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