HEC school teachers no better than ayahs

Osama Manzar
How strange it sounds that the financial status of the HEC school teachers is no better than an ayah or a mazdoor working in the same school.
This reporter was given to under stand when he talked to some of the teachers of the HEC school that they were only too eager to narrate their tale of woes.
The school teachers, it is learnt have been protesting against the poor payscale for the past 10-15 years, but disappointingly of no avail.
What with complaining, striking and running about in the political corridors, the HEC school teachers are a lot resigned’ to their fate, such is their plight.
It is a fact that the basic pay of a general HEC school teacher is Rs. 1144.00 which is, it is learnt, only Rs. 5 more than the basic pay of a senior ayah which is Rs. 1139.00.
All the HEC schools are affiliated to the Bihar Secondary School Examination Board. Barring the State government payscale, the HEC school teachers enjoy all other benefits viz holidays etc.
On the contrary, their com patriots the Central school teachers. who enjoy Central payscale are much better off.
The plight of the HEC school teachers is that they neither get the Central payscale nor the State government payscale.