13,000 Delhi Teachers On Strike
Over 13,000 teachers of the north and east Delhi municipal corporations have not been paid their salaries for more than 3 months.
Over 13,000 teachers of the north and east Delhi municipal corporations have not been paid their salaries for more than 3 months. They have launched a protest to demand immediate payment of their salaries. According to the teachers association teachers in the north corporation were last paid in May and teachers of the east civic body were paid in June.
A group of teachers have been sitting on an agitation for two hours daily for the past 26 days at the MCD Civic Centre headquarters of the north corporation. Ramnivas Solanki, general secretary of the MCD teachers’ union said, “We have been working throughout the pandemic, without caring for our safety. Now they are not even paying us.”The nursing staff, paramedics and sanitation workers of the Kasturba Hospital in Delhi too have been a continuous protest for the last 13 days over pending salaries.
The BJP-led municipal corporations and the AAP-led Delhi government are blaming each other. The municipal officials have said that the Delhi government has not released funds. The Delhi government is saying that it has already released the funds and does not owe anything to the corporations.
