Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Thursday said that the previous state government completely ignored the demands of PTA, PAT and Para teachers, but the present government understood the pain of these teachers serving in the government schools and tried to find solutions to their various issues.
Presiding over a function organised by the PTA Regular Teachers Association to felicitate him at Hotel Peterhof here, the Chief Minister said that the state government was working with commitment to provide quality education to the students, in which the teachers of the State were making appreciable contribution. He said that the PTA teachers had rendered their services in remote areas for years with full honesty and integrity and the government was well aware of their demands. He said that after the continuous efforts of the present state government, these teachers had been merged in the department. About 6500 PTAs, 3300 PATs and 97 Para teachers of the state had been benefited by this decision. He said that the state government had also regularized 1368 PTA teachers who were left out due to the gap period and late arrival of documents in the Directorate of Education.
Jai Ram Thakur assured that the state government was considering to provide benefits of regularization to the regular PTA teachers from the previous date (retrospectively). The Finance Secretary had been asked to study its financial and other aspects and submit the report. He said that the state government had also fulfilled many other demands like provision of casual, medical and maternity leaves to the SMC teachers