Technical teachers' plea

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, AUG. 12. A detailed memorandum was presented to the Union Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Gingee N. Ramachandran, during his visit to Pondicherry recently, by the Pondicherry State Government Technical Teachers Federation seeking his intervention to bring relief to the staff.

The teachers, who come under the category of music, drawing, sewing and crafts, allege discrimination by authorities in fixing the pay scales for them.

There are some 150 teachers in various Government schools handling classes from 6th 10th standard in arts and crafts.

A spokesman of the federation told The Hindu today that while the physical education teachers and librarians in Government schools had been getting Rs. 5500-9000 pay scale, the technical teachers were being paid Rs. 4500 as basic pay.

The authorities had not recruited any new staff since 1990, he said and added the authorities had upgraded the secondary grade teachers in Government schools handling beyond sixth standard as school assistants on the basis of certain qualifications.

The Minister forwarded the representation he had received to the Pondicherry Tourism and Education Minister, Mr. A.V. Subramanian, requesting him to look into the representation.

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