*BEENA S.NAIK,* President,
Higher Secondary Teachers Association, 2137,Near Swami Math, Gogol,Margao Goa 403602 2759555 9823458875 16th November, 2014 *HISTAG TO SEND REPRESENTATION TO SEVENTH PAY COMMISSION* PRESS NOTE Higher Secondary School Teachers’ Association Goa, has decided to send a representation to the Seventh Pay Commission to take into consideration Higher Secondary School Teachers’ Pay – scales in the State of Goa. In an Annual General Body meeting of HISTAG , presided over by its President, Mrs Beena S. Naik, held in the complex of Vidhya Vikas Mandal’s Damodar College Complex, on Sunday, the Association felt that the although 7th Pay Commission deals with Central Government employees, invariably, most of the State governments, adopt the Central Pay Commission report. In this situation it will be appropriate that the Association acquaints the Commission about the discrepancy that has resulted on account of 10 plus 2 plus 3 scheme which resulted in demotion of Higher Secondary School teachers. She further said that the teachers who were a part of College system earlier were not only demoted but deprived of their various upward promotions. She also said that due to this scheme the teachers were not only demoted and deprived but were also demoralized; and therefore, in order to boost the morale of the higher secondary teachers, the government should try to put the higher secondary teachers into a separate scale/category. Mrs. Naik further said that the association has already given a memorandum to the then Chief Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar and the association now proposes to meet the present Chief MinisterShri Laxmikant Parsekar, who was also a teacher by profession. Mrs Naik said that the HISTAG was happy to note that the ex- Chief Minister Shri Parrikar accepted the demand for scrapping of restricted criteria of 20 % for the grant of Selection Scale, and accordingly made a statement to that effect ,in his budget speech, during the last budget session. The association also decided to conduct a workshop for the teachers and also pay visit to the various higher secondary schools. HISTAG in their meeting passed a resolution to congratulate the new CM ,Shri Laxmikant Parsekar and hoped that he would understand the issues related to education better, he being himself a teacher. BEENA S.NAIK ATTACHMENT OF- Photograph of Mrs Beena S.Naik