Assistant masters demand rise in pay scale

Assistant masters demand rise in pay scale

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Feb 19: The Karnataka State High School Assistant Masters’ Association organized a protest in front of the DC’s office on Feb 19, Saturday and demanded an increase in pay scale from the current Rs. 8,825 – Rs. 16,000 to Rs. 10,800 – Rs. 20,025.

In his protest address, Manjunath Kumar K. K., the organizing secretary of the association, said that the association also wants the state government to set the pay scale as per the recommendations of the Education Department Commissioner and based on the V Pay Commission. Stating that the government has been consistently ignoring the pleas of the association, he said that the pay scale of assistant masters in Karnataka is much lower than that in other states.

The association also wants the government to honor the order of the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal and promote 75 percent of high school teachers as headmasters and 50 percent of headmasters as college lecturers. The other demands of the association include medical allowance, special increment for teachers who have passed Kannada examinations, time-bound recurring promotions, and removal of discrepancies in pay scales of junior and senior teachers.

The association also demands that suspended period of SSLC evaluators should be considered as special leave and that economic measures imposed on aided high schools should be withdrawn. The association demanded that teachers recruited on the basis of rural grace marks in 1998 – 99 should be given back their jobs and various facilities due to them and that their seniority should be taken into consideration. It also stressed the need for recruitment of Hindi inspectors.

A rally from Jyothi Circle to the DC’s office marked the beginning of the protest. The association also intends to submit a memorandum to the state government through DC Subodh Yadav.

Ramakrishna Shirur, the district unit president of the association, Treasurer Vasanth, General Secretary Gopalkrishna, B. K. Bhat, Abraham, Krishna Achar, Ramanand, and many others participated in this protest.