UNP calls upon Govt to rectify salary anomalies of teachers soon

by Ananda Kannangara

The main opposition UNP yesterday called upon the Government to soon rectify the salary anomalies of Government teachers who gave up their three-week long trade union action which disrupted the Advanced Level-examination answer scripts evaluation process.

"Although the matter is over and the answer scripts evaluation process is functioning smoothly, the authorities must not think that the teachers are happy", UNP, General Secretary Tissa Attanayaka told the `Sunday Observer.

He said all of them work with a pain in mind over this longstanding unresolved matter and therefore, it is time the authorities look into the matter in a positive manner and prevent them from resorting to another trade union action.

"Apart from the recent trade union action, everybody knows that school teachers had never in the past disrupted the education of students and this too must be appreciated by the authorities," he said. Attanayaka also called upon the Government to respect the pulse of trade unionists in the country and not to harass them without fulfilling their objectives.

Meanwhile, when contacted Education Minister Susil Premajayantha told the `Sunday Observer' that the salary anomalies of teachers will be solved within three weeks as the matter was forwarded to the Government appointed `Salaries Cadre Commission' (SCC) last week.