Udupi: Teachers will get salary on time: Kageri

The Hindu

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 Officials told to distribute salaries on priority Delay attributed to problems in link document

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Udupi: Primary and Secondary Education Minister Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri said on Friday that the Government would adopt a new system to ensure immediate disbursal of salaries to the teachers.

Speaking to presspersons before inaugurating the new building of the District Institute for Education and Training (DIET), Mr. Kageri said that the salaries of teachers had been delayed by about four months. The Government had now released Rs. 400 crore on this account and the rest would be released shortly.

He said that he had directed the chief executive officers and chief accounts officers of zilla panchayats to disburse salaries of teachers on priority.

The delay was due to some problems in the link document. “I have instructed them to see that such confusion does not arise in future,” he said.

On involving teachers of CBSE and ICSE schools in the child census despite a Supreme Court order to the contrary, Mr. Kageri agreed that the Supreme Court had passed such an order. But the census was an important task. “We have taken due precautions to see that it is not to the detriment of students and that their studies are not affected,” he said.

Mr. Kageri said that the Centre had a vital role in formulating language policy. This would put an end to all problems regarding the medium of instruction. To a question, Mr. Kageri said that there was good response to the change in the question paper pattern for the SSLC examination.