Primary teachers hold massive protest in Doon

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Primary teachers hold massive protest in Doon

Tuesday, 21 January 2020 | PNS | Dehradun

In support of their demand for restoration of old pension scheme (OPS), the Prathmik Shikshak Sangh (PSS) organised a massive protest here on Monday.

On the day, thousands of teachers from all parts of the state congregated at the protest site near parade ground and resolved to continue their agitation till the Government restores the facility of the OPS.

On the call given by its parent organisation, the Akhil Bharatiya Prathmik Shikshak Sangh, the teachers belonging to PSS had taken one day mass leave to attend the protest at parade ground.

Addressing the teachers, the president of PSS, Digvijay Singh said that the teachers of the state are on a path of protracted agitation the issue of OPS and their other demands but the Government is paying no heed to the justified demands.

He said the representatives of associations from all states would organise a relay hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi from February 21 to 27.

It is worth mentioning here that the employees recruited after the year 2004 are listed under the New Pension Scheme (NPS) under which a fixed contribution from their salary every month is deposited to create a corpus (fund).

The employees get the interest generated from their corpus as pension on retirement which is not fixed as it was in OPS.

The employees organisations are claiming that they would get meagre pensions under the NPS which would not be able sustain them after retirement.

They are demanding that the government should restore the OPS for them. In response to a question about restoration of OPS in state assembly recently, the officiating parliamentary affairs minister, Madan Kaushik had informed that the state has 1.40 lakh employees who are under OPS while 80,000 employees are under NPS.

The PSS is also demanding that the state government should remove the disparities in the sixth pay commission and the recommendations of the VII pay commission should be implemented uniformly for all the teachers in the country.

The association also wants that all teachers working in capacities such as Para teachers, contractual teachers, Shiksha Mitras should be regularised. The PSS also wants that the anti teacher provisions from the National Education Policy should be removed and efforts to strengthen primary education in the country should be initiated.

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