For all the Higher secondary school teachers in Kerala, April Fool Day came a little bit earlier, when the Justice Rajendrababu Commission on Pay Revision of Employees was unveiled. Barring the Basic pay scale that starts from Rs.20740 and fixing the lower end of the HSST scale to Rs.19240, the hidden agenda of some service unions have come into light. Average total benefits comes to not more than Rs.3000. We expected the service unions to raise voice against this anomaly, but they have remained more or less silent. This shows that they are not interested towards higher secondary, but rather zero in on high school and LP/UP teachers. Making the basic Rs.19240, one may suspect, is an attempt to strip off the "Gazetted" rank off the HSS teachers.
Here are two different responses from two service union members- very interesting
1. "The promotion to HM cadre happens only after, say 24 or 25 years of HSA service. So they deserve more than HSST's the Scale of Rs.20740." - I agree. But why our salary is fixed at a lower scale? All previous pay revisions had both scales fixed at the same amount. May be a "Gazetted" group among the teaching staff is not okay for some people.
2. "All other posts having the scale Rs.20740 are posts having "Authority". They mean jobs with heads of offices sort profile. Suppose in an Govt. Ayurveda Hospital, there are 5 Medical Officers. All of them are not "Heads of offices" Also when there is no regular Principal, the HSSTs are the ones upon which the Full Additional Charge is vested upon.
One thing is clear. When the commission had the interview with the unions and the directorate, neither of them had spoken about this anomaly....
What we can do? Everybody know, this is the hidden agenda of ........
ReplyDeletethe injustice shown by justice Rajendrababu is not justified. so remain calm and proceed.
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