Hyderabad, March 29: Secondary Education Minister K. Parthasarathy said that the Government will do its best to protect the spirit of GO 330 and continue the benefits given to language pundits.
The language pundits appointed in Grade II category were given benefits of Grade I based on their eligibility under the Act 1/2005. But later, the Government decided to recover the additional increments, which was opposed by the teacher unions.
He also said that as a case was pending in the Supreme Court, he discussed the issue with the Chief Minister and would take legal opinion to amend the relevant Act to extend the above benefit to language pundits appointed before 1982 as suggested by the teacher MLCs. The Minister was making a statement on the issues raised by Teacher MLCs in Council on Monday.
Earlier, soon after the House assembled, the Teacher MLCs V. Subramanyam, B. Mohan Reddy, P. Sudhakar Reddy, G. Srinivasulu Naidu, D. Ramireddy, P. Subba Reddy and others staged a quiet sit-in in the well of the House to press for their demands.
Meeting proposed
Reminding them that the Pay Revision Commission (PRC) rejected such a proposal of the teacher MLCs under 37/2005 Act, Mr. Parthasarathy, however, said that he took it to the Chief Minister’s notice. He promised to convene a meeting of finance officials in two or three days to take a final decision.
Referring to the agreement between Cabinet sub-committee and teacher unions to do away with apprenticeship system, he said the Finance Department was drafting the guidelines.
–Agencies