Instructing throughout the state was affected as 1000’s of shiksha mitras or para teachers took mass informal go away to attend a Lucknow conference on Monday.
The conference was organised by a physique, patronised by Union minister of state Kaushal Kishore who promised the teachers that after 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP authorities would address their lengthy pending calls for of regularisation. Looking for help of over 1.46 lakh shiiksha mitras, Kishore promised to take up the difficulty of their regularisation earlier than Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
“The BJP authorities is significantly wanting into the issues raised by you and will address all of them after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. I will take up your situation earlier than Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath,” the minister mentioned at a conference of shiksha mitras on the Ramabai Ambedkar Maidan in Lucknow on Monday.
The minister reminded the para teachers that regardless of opposing the BJP in 2019 Lok Sabha and 2022 UP elections, the BJP authorities below Yogi Adityanath had raised their salaries. The conference was organised by Adarsh Samayojit Shikshak Shiksha Mitra Welfare Affiliation Uttar Pradesh, which is patronised by Kishore.
“In 2019 and 2022, the teachers have been misled by some opposition leaders then. After 2024 elections the BJP authorities will take steps to defend the curiosity of shiksha mitras,” he mentioned. The conference was attended by shiksha mitras and their households at the same time as educating in main faculties throughout the state suffered due to para teachers taking mass informal go away.
Welcoming the minister’s assurance, the para teachers promised to lengthen their help to the BJP authorities in 2024 elections.
“Lakhs of shiksha mitras together with their households and all of the workplace bearers of the shiksha mitra organisation participated on this conference,” Kishore mentioned.
Kishore blamed the then Samajwadi Social gathering authorities for the current situation of para teachers.
“Had the SP authorities raised their salaries at par with common teachers the shiksha mitras wouldn’t have been on this situation at the moment. They misplaced the case within the Supreme Courtroom as they have been unable to fulfill the {qualifications} required of an assistant instructor, a submit on which they have been regularised,” he mentioned. Para teachers later raised slogans in help of Kishore who in flip raised slogans in help of the teachers.
Govt state common secretary of Adarsh Samayojit Shikshak Shiksha Mitra Welfare Affiliation Uttar Pradesh, Umesh Kumar Pandey mentioned the conference was organised after talks with Kishore. He mentioned all organisations of para teachers participated on the conference.
A BRIEF HISTORY
The BSP authorities (2007-2012), had tried to regularise the providers of those para teachers but it surely was solely after 2012, when the Samajwadi Social gathering got here to energy it initiated steps to regularise their providers (then there have been 1.73 lakh para teachers) by way of an modification within the guidelines.
Lastly, their providers have been regularised throughout Akhilesh Yadav authorities’s tenure (2012-2017) in 2014.
Nonetheless, in 2017, the Supreme Courtroom quashed their appointment and declared that the providers of those contractual teachers can’t be regularised till they cleared the Teachers’ Eligibility Check (TET).
After the SC judgement, the salaries of those teachers have been slashed from ₹38,848 per thirty days (common scale) to ₹3,500 per thirty days (contractual cost).
The Yogi Adityanath authorities, in its first stint in energy (2017-2022) elevated the payout from ₹3,500 to ₹10,000.
The shiksha mitras have been demanding regularisation of providers, elevating retirement age from 60 years to 62 years, equal pay at par with common teachers.