Teacher salary payment: There is a relief news for the senior teachers doing the duty of Principal in the upper primary schools of Uttar Pradesh. Allahabad High Court has given a big decision in the interest of these teachers. Under this, senior teachers will get the benefit of arrears along with the salary of the post of Principal.
This is the whole matter
According to the information, the assistant teachers working as in-charge headmasters in the primary schools of Basic Education Council of UP for years had appealed to the Allahabad High Court for payment of the salary of the headmaster. Tripurari Dubey, who was the headmaster in-charge of the primary school of Gorakhpur since 2010, and some other teachers, who were holding the responsibility of the headmaster in-charge since 2005, had filed a petition in the High Court in November 2022 and said that despite this, while working on the post of headmaster, he was given the status of assistant. The teacher was getting his salary. Is.
The petitioner and other teachers were appointed as assistant teachers, later they started working as senior teachers in the upper primary school. The petition said that he has been working as the headmaster since May 31, 2014.
On this, the state government argued that the headmaster's salary can be given only to those who have been regularly selected for the post of headmaster, he has not been regularly selected for the post of headmaster, hence the salary for the post of headmaster. can be given. Headmaster cannot be given. Yes, even if the job of headmaster is being taken from him.
Order to pay the salary of the post of Principal along with arrears
After hearing both the sides, Allahabad High Court rejected the arguments of the government and in this regard accepted the petition of the teachers citing the Supreme Court case of Dr. Jaiprakash Narayan Singh and Arindam Chattopadhyay and others vs. Government of West Bengal. Justice Piyush Aggarwal, accepting the petition of Tripurari Dubey and other teachers, has directed to pay the salary of the post of headmaster along with arrears to the senior teachers. These teachers have been instructed to make payment along with arrears from May 31, 2014, the date of joining the post of Principal.