Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday said that State Government is committed to implement the policy of ‘equal work equal pay’. Soren said that Government is serious in this connection and Government is going to bring a policy.
The Chief Minister was replaying to the query made by Congress legislator Deepika Pandey Singh, where she had raised the issue of private unaided education. Soren said that Government is to abolish the unaided education system and in this connection administrative reform commission is to be formed.
As Singh was absent in the house, her query was raised by Khijri MLA Rajesh Kachaap, who said that is the government planning to abolish unaided education system through constitution of high level committee.
MLA Pradeep Yadav and Stephen Marandi also raised the issue.
Marandi said that with the unaided education policy, many teachers are teaching with very low salary, the Government should constitute a committee under which a decision should be taken to close down such institutions having fewer students.
The plight of inmates living at welfare hostels was also raised at budget session of Jharkhand Assembly on Tuesday. Raising the issue, Poreyahat MLA Pradeep Yadav at call attention asked the Minister to give information about the facilities at welfare hostels. Minister for Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Caste & Backward Class Welfare and Transport departments, Champai Soren replaying to Yadav’s query said that the Government is assessing the facilities.
However, Yadav dissatisfied with Minister answers said that minister should provide information about number of welfare hostels functioning in state along with cooks and other assistants.
JMM MLA Stephen Marandi intervening on the issue said that Government should take up the issue seriously and the Minister should provide information about the existing vacancies of cooks and other staff at welfare hostels.The issue of sand ghats was also raised in the Assembly. The opposition MLAs raising the issue said that while on one hand government has not floated any policy for auctioning of sand, illegal sand mining has gone up.