Ensure salary to all teaching, non-teaching staff: Samoon to schools

Principal Secretary School Education Dr Asghar Samoon today directed the representatives of all private schools from Kashmir and Jammu divisions to provide salary to entire teaching and non-teaching staff.

In a statement, this direction was given to JK Education Chamber (JKEC), a body of private schools, which called on Dr Asghar Samoon.

The statement said Dr Samoon directed the schools to provide salary to entire teaching and non-teaching staff, so that the impact on their families is minimised during the lockdown period.

He said that the salary of teaching and non-teaching staff should constitute the first component of fee collected from students.

The school representatives informed Dr Samoon about the difficulties faced by the schools during the present circumstances. “We told them how the situation has been bad especially for education sector since August last year when Kashmir was first put under lockdown and then COVID-19 spread necessitated lockdown,” said a spokesperson of JKEC.