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SSA staff threaten agitation
The contract and outsourced employees of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) have threated to resort to agitation to press for their demands.
Hyderabad: The contract and outsourced employees of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) have threated to resort to agitation to press for their demands.
They have been demanding among others equal pay for equal work and facilities on a par with the government employees. The SSA staff are critical of the government for failing to implement the Supreme Court’s orders on equal pay for equal work.
The SSA Contract and Outsources Employees Association said there was no increase in salary for them for the last three years. Most of the employees have been working on contract for the last 18 years, the Association leaders said. As many as 15,600 employees are working in the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and in other educational programmes being sponsored by the Centre in posts like sectoral officers, system analysts, computer operator, messengers, resource persons, coordinators, cluster resource persons, instructor and others.
They have been working on consolidated salaries and are not provided with any facilities. The leaders of these employees said that along with the Supreme Court, State government has also decided to give equal pay for equal work through GO 14 of 2015. Other States had initiated steps to regularise the services of the contract and outsourced staff in SSAs and other Centrally sponsored programmes. Some States have been providing basic pay to them.
The leaders said that though the salaries should have been hiked in April, so far no action was taken. They demanded that government should hike their salaries with retrospective effect from April and should pay arrears. More posts in Education Department should be created and they should be absorbed into them.
Contract and outsourced employees should be provided with medical insurance and EPF, they should be given salary for 12 months, 22 casual leaves, maternity leaves should be given to woman employees and recruitment should be held after adjusting the contract and outsourced employees in government posts.
The contract and outsourced employees of SSA allege that the government failed to raise the size of the budget for the programme. The government should have raised the salaries and should have got the consent of the Centre.
