150 computer instructors employed with UT edu dept received no salary for 3 months

As many as 150 computer instructors employed with Chandigarh Education department at different schools were not paid their salaries for last three months from June to August during the time of lockdown. Around 100 of these instructors are women and others are men, most of them the only bread earners in their family.

Despite not being paid, the workers were still on duty on rotation basis. The instructors were employed dates in 2008. The education department officials attributed the delay in the releasing of their salaries to the issue of hiring a new contractual agency through Government e-Marketplace (GeM), which undertake the affairs of computer instructors in June this year. The new agency has sent a list of other 150 people replacing these 150 computer instructors.