In a significant decision, which is set to benefit around 1.50 lakh teachers across Government schools in Chhattisgarh, the State Government on Thursday announced that the teachers will receive salaries in the first week of every month.
According to official information, Chief Minister Raman Singh has directed officers from School Education Department, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education to get implemented online salary payment system from financial year 2016-17. Acting on Chief Minister’s direction, from April 1, 2016, the web-portal based payment gateway is going to be adopted for paying salary to the teachers, officials stated.
Director SSA Mohammad Abdul Kaisar Haque informed that after the system is implemented, teachers will receive their salaries for the month of April in the first week of May and this system will continue. He said every month, salaries would be released before receiving Central government’s share and later on when the State government would get former’s share of funds, the amount will be adjusted.
According to Director, SSA, for payment of salaries of various teachers (Panchayat) and Assistant Teachers (Panchayat) from fund of Rs 208 crore has already been released, which will be their salary payment till the month of December 2015.