Our Correspondent Mandi Ahmedgarh July 9 Members of the Punjab State Aided Schools Teachers and other Employees Union have threatened to launch an agitation if the demand to bring their pay on a par with government teachers in the proposed Sixth Pay Commission was not accepted. The review of payment of house rent city compensatory allowance and medical allowance on a par with other state government employees and government teachers were cited as major demands of the employees. Activists led by state executive member Ravinder Jit Puri alleged that the successive governments had failed to narrow the wide gap between salary and allowances of employees of aided schools and government school officials. They claimed that even employees of different aided schools were getting perks including house rent and medical allowance. “The Education Department is preparing salaries of teachers and other employees of various schools by entitling them for house rent ranging between five per cent and 15 per cent” said Puri lamenting that employees of the region were getting a meagre amount of Rs250 as medical allowance and were entitled for leave encashment. Majority of employees who were nearing retirement urged the government to review the pay commission report in such a way that the pension and retirement benefits are adequate to sustain a dignified life.

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