Promoted headteachers in government primary schools have protested against the ‘temporary’ pay scale allowed to them through a recent government order.
The order, issued on Thursday, sanctions scale of pay for lower and upper primary headteachers who had been given temporary promotion in 2021.
The headteachers say they have been allowed the temporary scale as per Rule 31(f) of the Kerala State and Subordinate Service Rules, 1958, pertaining to temporary promotion, though they had qualified the departmental tests for headteacher promotion and should be given permanent promotion. The government cited an interim order of the Kerala Administrative Tribunal (KAT) in June this year to fix the pay and sanction arrears recently.
