Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, Mar 25: The teaching and non teaching staff of Government Higher Secondary School, Kotli Bagha in Reasi district has been denied salaries of February 2020 for unknown reasons.
While talking to Excelsior on phone the staff members of the school said that when they took up the issue with head of the institute she said that the grant for the school has not been released with the result the salary was not drawn. They said that they tried to contact higher ups in Director School Education Jammu but no body responded to their repeated calls.
The staff members said that in view of the COVID -19 threat and lockdown the staff is hard pressed as neither they can visit the Director’s Office for grant of funds nor approach other officers in Civil Secretariat. They wanted to know when the salaries of all employees of the Education Department in the UT have been released why not of their school.
Demanding early release of funds the staff members said that due to non payment of salaries they are facing difficulties in present situation to make purchases of daily use including medicines. They said over 30 members of the staff of the school have been effected by non payment of salaries. The staff members said that they have completed all formalities including that of tax payment still the salaries for the last moth were not paid when the new month is also near ending.
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