HC summons top edu officials in contempt case over teachers' pay

Bhopal/Jabalpur: The MP high court has summoned the principal secretary of school education, Sanjay Goyal, and commissioner of public instructions, Shilpa Gupta, in connection with a contempt petition over non-implementation of the
Seventh Pay Commission
for staff of government-aided schools.
The next hearing is scheduled for July 21.
The contempt proceedings concerns a petition filed by MP Madhyamik Shikshak Sangh in 2019. The petition said that teaching and non-teaching staff of schools receiving government aid were given the benefit of sixth wage commission. When their salaries were not revised following the seventh wage commission report, the Sangh moved the court.
The court had directed the state government to take an appropriate decision on the demand for implementation of seventh wage board recommendations for the government-aided school staff.
Following this, the state government dve several vague replies on the issue in the court during hearing of Sangh's petition.
The court ultimately came to a conclusion that application of the petitioner for seventh pay commission for staff of government-aided schools has not been properly considered. The issue was not tabled in the state cabinet meeting nor was the NOC sought from the finance department. Considering this as contempt of court, the bench of Justice A K Singh has now summoned the two top officials of the school education department.

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