In a general body meeting held at GM Hall today, AMESTA H/O general secretary Ch Shanta said that requisite qualification scale/higher scale was introduced in 1966 and continued till 2006.
However, after Finance Department issued an order on October 10, 2005, AG Department started deducting huge amount of money from the pension amount of the retired teachers, Shanta added. Teachers who enjoyed requisite qualification scale/higher scale till 2005 did not face such inconvenience during their service tenure as well as after they retired.
As such, he questioned why the AG Department deducts a sizeable amount from the pension amount of the long suffering teachers, who have rendered their service not only in the teaching profession but also in election and Census works etc as Government representatives.
Saying that the State Government has not issued a concrete order yet to end this system although many Directors, Commissioners and Ministers have come and gone, Ch Shanta lamented that it is not fair to impose such an unjust system on the aged teachers. Although the matter was discussed by the State Cabinet in February this year, the State Government is yet to take a positive decision in this regard inconveniencing the pensioners as well as teachers who are still in service. Maintaining that AMESTA has served an ultimatum to the Government to take a positive decision on the issue by September 20, Ch Shanta said that the association would initiate different forms of agitation if the demand is not fulfilled within this given time. He added that the AMESTA H/O secretary will go to New Delhi to put up the matter before the All India Primary Teachers' Federation, Prime Minister and HRD Minister.
Source: The Sangai Express
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