5,000 computer teachers, lab attendants re-engaged in Hry

HOWEVER, AGITATING CONTRACTUAL EMPLOYEES REITERATE THEIR DEMAND FOR REGULAR JOBS

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government on Friday decided to re-engage the computer faculty and lab attendants in government senior secondary and high schools with effect from July 1.

They will be engaged till March 31 or till the regular recruits join or whichever would be earlier, an official spokesperson said here on Friday.

There are about 2,200 such computer teachers and 2,300 lab attendants, who had been working on contractual basis for the past several years and were relieved on May 31 this by the state government.

Demanding permanent jobs in education department, they have been holding an indefinite dharna in Panchkula.

The spokesperson said the computer faculty and lab attendants would be re-engaged on the same emoluments – Rs 10,000 per month in case of computer faculty and Rs 6,000 per month in case of lab attendants.

Computer Teachers Welfare Association president Balram Dhiman and Lab Attendants Welfare Association state president Surender Peont said they would join the work, though they would continue to raise their demand for permanent jobs.

They said that it was an irony that they were often relieved and later re-engaged since 2013 even as the BJP leaders had assured them that their jobs would be regularised if their party came to power.

They said even chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar had announced on December 20, 2017, that computer teachers would be given a monthly salary of Rs 21,700 and lab attendants Rs 11,400 from January 1, 2018 and the decision had not been implemented yet.