On Minority Rights Day, Hundreds of UP Madrasa Teachers Demand Pending Salary of Four Years

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New Delhi, Dec 18: On the occasion of the Minorities Rights Day today, hundreds of madrasa teachers from Uttar Pradesh held a protest demonstration near the Parliament House in Delhi. They were demanding release of their salaries which they said are pending for the past 33 months.

The protest was organized by Madrasa Adhunik Shiksha Sangathan Ekta Manch, an umbrella body of modern subject teachers of government-aided madrasas in Uttar Pradesh.

In a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, they said that there are 30,000 modern madrasa teachers under the central government’s SPQIM/SPEMM. They have been teaching Hindi, English, Social Sciences, Maths, Science and Computer at madrasas for over 25 years. Despite high inflation, graduate teachers are given mere Rs 6000 per month and graduate plus B.Ed and post-graduate teachers get Rs 12000.

“However, this small salary too is never given to them on time. They have not been paid salary for the past 33 months (since 2016-17) and their families are struggling to meet both ends while your government talks about ‘Sab Ka Saath Sab Ka Vikas,” they wrote in the memorandum.

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