Madrassa teachers demand pending salary

Dehradun: The Uttarakhand’s Madrassa teachers are demanding the state government to release their respective outstanding salaries for the period after March 2017. The Madrassa teachers who were employed in various minority institutions under the central government’ scheme, SPQEM (Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madrassas), are not paid their respective salaries of Rs 12,000 for almost past five years.Last year in September, the teachers were cleared off their dues till the period March 2017 yet the remaining salary (almost 5 years) is yet to be given to almost 600 teachers of Uttarakhand.
The teachers claim that the budget salary of this entire financial year has been transferred to the state government but they are delaying it in releasing it.
Notably, last month, the Uttarakhand High Court had also ruled in favour of the 18 teachers who had filed a petition in the court regarding the non-payment of their salaries. After more than 2 years, the court had given its judgment where it has ordered that the outstanding salaries of the 18 petitioners should be released immediately.