Old pension: These employees will get the gift of old pension, thousands of employees will get relief

A hopeful news is coming from Lucknow. The basic teachers of the state have been struggling for years to restore the old pension system, now they are standing at a decisive turning point in that fight.

Old pension: A good news is coming for the teachers of Uttar Pradesh. Let us tell you that 46,189 basic teachers of the state are likely to get the benefit of the old pension scheme soon. An important meeting is going to be held at the government level on April 22 for these teachers of the special BTC 2004 batch, in which the Principal Secretaries of Education, Finance, Personnel and Justice Department will participate together. It is believed that a concrete decision can now be taken on this issue pending for years.

What is the matter?

In January 2004, an advertisement for basic teacher recruitment was issued for B.Ed degree holders, which was revised in February 2004. Six months of training was made mandatory for the selected candidates, but due to departmental arrangements, the training was done in three phases. Due to this reason, the training process was completed by December 2005, whereas if everyone had been trained together, it could have been completed in January 2005 itself.

Implementation of new pension system became an obstacle

Meanwhile, the new pension system came into effect in the state from 1 April 2005. Since these teachers were appointed after December 2005, they were kept under the new pension scheme. The teachers consider this to be the result of the department’s delay and since then they have been demanding the old pension.

Legal battle and new hope

The teachers reached the High Court and then the Supreme Court on this issue. The Supreme Court left the matter to the government and asked to take a decision on the basis of merit. The government kept these teachers in the new pension scheme on the basis of appointment date. But recently the Supreme Court clarified that if the advertisement of a post was done before the implementation of the old pension system, then the employee should be given the old pension. After this order, the central and then the state government have also issued the relevant orders.

Now everyone’s eyes are on the meeting of 22 April

Now the teachers are again demanding that since their advertisement was released in January 2004, they should get the benefit of the old pension. However, some officials are arguing that this matter has already gone to the Supreme Court, so it would not be appropriate to change it. At the same time, the teachers say that the Supreme Court itself has now ordered the determination of pension on the basis of the advertisement date, which has also been accepted by the central and state governments.

Now the government is going to review the whole matter again and a meeting of the four principal secretaries has been called on 22 April. In this meeting, a concrete decision can be taken on the years old demand of teachers, due to which thousands of families are expected to get relief.

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