Belagavi: “The Muzrai Department has been in a discussion with the Education Department for handing over the schools that run by the temples under the department in Dakshin Kannada and Udupi districts,” said Muzrai Minister T B Jayachandra on Thursday, December 18 in the Legislative Council session.
Adding to the details, Jayachandra informed that six aided and 12 unaided schools were run by the temples under the Muzrai Department after getting due permissions from the Education Department. Teachers were paid low wages, hence the department has been involved in talks to handover the schools to Education Department.
Salaries if had to be given on par with government teachers, they would require Rs three crore and the temples do not have the strength. Moreover, the Education Department along with the schools has also been demanding the lands and cabinet approval has to be taken to handover the lands, he added.
Supreme Court judgment of equal work, equal pay applies for them, he concluded.
