Aizawl, Dec 14 (PTI) Mizoram education minister
Lalsawta today told the state assembly that 4,835 teachers
from 541 schools, drawing salaries from the state Plan did not
receive salaries.
Replying to a query from C. Ramhluna of the
opposition Mizo National Front (MNF), Lalsawta said that the
teachers could not draw their salaries as adequate allocation
for salaries was not allotted in the plan allocation.
Additional fund required for payment of salaries to
the teachers was Rs 63. 11 crore during the current fiscal, he
said, adding that the state finance and planning departments
were making all out efforts to ensure that the teachers and
other department employees who have not received salaries get
it before Christmas.
Sources said that while government school teachers
have not received salaries since October, there were
non-government school teachers who could not get salaries for
months altogether.