No April salary for 1,200 BMC teachers

Aarey BMC school staff have now not gained salaries for four months; some lecturers searching for transfer or new vocations.

Over 1,200 lecturers from 18 BMC colleges across the city have now not gained their salaries for April because of a glitch in the biometric attendance machine. While several lecturers have lengthy been notifying the government in their respective wards about the persisting downside with the machine, lecturers’ unions and the union of civic staff have now taken up the problem with the BMC headquarters. The BMC school in Aarey Colony is alleged to be the worst affected because the personnel has now not gained salaries for the closing four months.

Maximum complaints about machine malfunction were gained from Aarey Colony, Madh and Gorai where the web connection isn't very robust. In another colleges the machines were freezing, incessantly leading to several lecturers being marked late or absent for the day.

In a contemporary case, a staffer from a BMC school was transferred from the afternoon shift to the morning shift. She did not get her wage for April as a result of this data was now not relayed to the clerks in BMC headquarters and she or he was marked absent. “Besides, many staffers who had been both on election duty or attending some coaching had been additionally marked absent, suffering wage cuts,” said Municipal Mazdoor Union secretary Sachin Kamble.

President of BMC Shikshak Sena, KP Naik, wrote to municipal commissioner Ajoy Mehta on May 7, informing him about the machine malfunction. “We have asked not to merge the attendance machine with our salaries, until the glitches are looked after. The biometric attendance machines in the colleges are of very unhealthy quality and wish to get replaced,” he said. Some lecturers are, actually, taking into consideration making use of for transfer to some other school as they to find it frustrating coming to far flung spaces without getting salaries. “Some of us are even taking into consideration selection vocations,” said a teacher from Aarey BMC school.

For their part, folks say kids will lose out on schooling if lecturers depart. “We can’t come up with the money for to send them to a personal school. These lecturers care for our youngsters like their very own and we don’t like this injustice meted out to them,” said Anandrao Mogha, president of the parents’ affiliation on the Aarey Colony school.

Leader of opposition in BMC, Ravi Raja, who has been taking up the cause of disgruntled lecturers, reassured them. “The common management division has promised disbursal of April salaries by way of next week. I needless to say a more permanent resolution is needed, for which the BMC must overhaul the machine,” he said. The appearing deputy municipal commissioner Sunil Dhamne, however, said not one of the lecturers have met him to speak about the problem after he took fee closing month.