The protest by part-time specialist teachers of the Samagra Shiksha Kerala (SSK) looking for a rise in honorarium was known as off on Thursday.
This follows an assurance of honorarium hike to ₹13,400 and ₹1,608 as EPF (employer contribution) following talks with Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty.
At current, specialist teachers obtain ₹10,000 as honorarium and 12% of that as EPF.
The hike will effected with retrospective impact from November 2022.
Specialist teachers shall be eligible for depart and different advantages relevant to part-time staff.
They should work in two faculties for 3 days every week. They may also must attend plan conferences at Samagra’s block useful resource centres involved one Saturday a month.
A choice on different points confronted by specialist teachers shall be taken on the premise of a report back to be submitted by the General Education Principal Secretary inside three months, a press release from the Minister’s workplace stated.
The specialist teachers, deployed beneath the Centrally-sponsored SSK to coach college students in artwork, bodily schooling, and work expertise, had been on a strike for the previous 37 days.
They have been appointed in 2016-17 and their pay was mounted at ₹29,000 a month on the time. Over the years, this got here right down to ₹10,000. After the EPF deduction, they have been taking residence a paltry ₹8,800, resulting in widespread dissatisfaction.
The honorarium is shared on 60:40 foundation between the Union authorities and the State. The Minister had earlier stated that the Centre had slashed the honorarium to ₹6,000 with three days of labor every week. The State’s share was ₹4,000. Following a spherical of talks with the protesting teachers, the Minister had promised to extend the honorarium to ₹12,000.
