Thiruvananthapuram: The teachers under the Inclusive Education for Disabled at Secondary Stage (IEDSS) have not received their salaries for over three months.
Sources said that these teachers were denied their salaries from November though the IEDSS cell of the DPI office had received the central government funds for the scheme during the period.
Nearly 725 IEDSS teachers have been working on temporary basis from 1999-2000 academic year. A central government circular had made it clear that the state should appoint teachers under IEDSS category to teach children with special needs (CWSN) on a permanent basis.
The central assistance for the scheme came to 100 percent of the administrative cost. The state governments needed to make provisions for annual scholarship of Rs. 600 per disabled child.
The resource teachers are eligible to get a salary of Rs 22,600 under the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) proposal. However, they are being paid only Rs 18,665 per month on contract basis.
The IEDSS was launched in 2009-10 replacing the earlier Integrated Education for Disabled Children (IEDC). The programme is for providing assistance for the inclusive education of the disabled children from classes IX to XII. It was handed over to the RMSA in 2013. The district panchayat is the implementing agency of the IEDSS.
