Services of 5,178 teachers, 650 nurses regularised in Punjab

Acceding to the long-pending demand of contractual teachers, the Punjab cabinet approved the regularisation of 5,178 teachers with full pay scale on Wednesday.

Besides, the cabinet also regularised 650 nurses of the health department as per the department's probation rules, according to an official release here.

Of the 5,178 teachers, 5,078 were recruited in the master's cadre and 100 as classical and vernacular teachers by the education department in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

They will get full pay scale with effect from October 2019, release said.

The cabinet has also reduced the probation period from three years to two years, it said.

Further, the teachers would be assigned seniority from the date of completion of their probation period.

These teachers are currently paid Rs 7,500 per month and their salary would be now fixed at minimum of grade pay which is Rs 15,300 per month till the time they are given full scale, the release said.

The government has formed an eight-member committee .