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PANAJI
Sixty-nine part-time teachers working under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan under the aegis of All Goa Part-Time Instructors (AGPTI) submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday morning seeking regularisation of their services among other demands.
The first batch of instructors were appointed in 2011 and their contract has been renewed every year since then.
However, they told the CM in the memo that they wished to be regularised as they were teaching full time from 7:45 am to 1:45 pm just like any other regular teacher.
Besides this, the teachers were not paid for those months of the year that were not within their contracts, which are of between 7 and 9 months duration.
The teachers argued that they had families, so it was important to them to have job security like any other government teacher.
Besides this, the pay of the part-time teachers had been brought down to Rs 7000 per month due to a change in salary structure. They earlier drew a remuneration of Rs 16,000 per month.
Gangaram Lambhor from the AGPTI said the CM was sympathetic to their demands and has assured them of raising their salary structure back to the original Rs 16,000 per month.
The part-time teachers
were employed to teach health and physical education, work education, and art education in government middle schools.
The letter submitted to the CM stated that besides the classes they take, the part-time teachers also take up projects, assignments, conduct examinations and assess students’ work, and undertake all the same duties as a full-time teacher.
