The public exchequer is hemorrhaging Rs 30 crore per year extra to teachers thanks to this ‘miscalculation’ by the Digambar Kamat government. Under the Sixth Central Pay Commission recommendations Part ‘B’ benefits were wrongly calculated. The Kamat government no doubt in a hurry towards the end of its term and before the Electoral Code was in place, made a huge blunder by doing the calculations based scales instead of on grade pay. This has led to a whacking great loss of Rs 30 crore annually to the budget. Before being elected, Manohar Parrikar said that he would reduce the deficit in Goa by plugging the leakages. This Rs 30 crore leakage is crying out to be plugged. The re-fixation of Part ‘B’ benefits under the Sixth Central Pay Commission will hit the suddenly huge pay packets the school teachers were taking home. Primary school teacher salaries registered an undreamed about Rs 8000 hike. They were almost on par with the senior school teachers, despite being undergraduates.x The overpayments must be returned to the exchequer but the All-Goa Secondary School Teachers Association (AGSSTA) says no, this would be wrong because the teachers have taken loans for vehicles, homes and other valuables based on the fat salaries they were suddenly getting.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:19:02 +0000
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