Daijiworld Media etwork – Panaji (SB)

Panaji, Sep 23: MP Shantaram Naik urged that Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan para teachers services should now be utilized by Goa government and their salaries should be paid from the state coffers as they did last year.

Naik who met the teachers, appointed under the scheme for the year 2006-07, 2007 -08 and 2008-09 and who are now out of job as their contract having not been renewed said that the HRD Ministry had stopped paying the teachers appointed under the scheme since last year and that since last year it is the Goa government which is paying their salaries.

And hence Naik said that this year too the state government should renew their contract and try to claim reimbursement from the HRD Ministry whatever amount the state government, has incurred last year. The amount is around Rs 1 crore and also should claim the amount which the state government is likely to incur for the year 2009-10 or part of it.

Naik, who had a meeting with P R Nadkarni, project director of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, further said that although state government should now share the burden of these teachers salaries, they should simultaneously claim reimbursement and should not give up the claim. In any case, the state government has to take a humane approach and considering that such para teachers are required in the state, should sanction necessary amount towards their salaries.