A six-member delegation of the association of principals of aided schools called upon State Chief Minister Harish Rawat on Monday and demanded that Government should take action on their demands which are pending for long.
The secretary of the association, Awadhesh Kumar Kaushik said that the Chief Minister took note of the demands and directed the secretary education to convene a meeting for bringing in the necessary amendments in the Uttarakhand School Education Act 2006.
He said that the association is hopeful that the State Government would now take action on their long pending demands.
The association is of the view that in aided intermediate schools, the promotion to the post of Principals of senior most lecturers should only be done on basis of their qualification as per the proposed act and all such qualified lecturers should be given salary of the post of principals from the date of joining or the posts should be filled by direct recruitment. The other demand of the Principals is that similar yard stick like government schools should be made for dividing the class into sections. The other demands are appointment of class IV employees; time bound increase in salaries and extension in retirement age for awardees.