Demands of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) Employees

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

LOK SABHA

ANSWERED ON   18.12.2013

(a) whether some demands of the teaching as well as non-teaching staff of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) have been accepted by the Government;

(b) if so, the details thereof along with the demands under consideration of the Government;

(c) the time by which final decision is likely to be taken on the demands of the said employees which are under consideration; and

(d) the views of the Government in providing benefit of pension-cum-GPF scheme to the said employees?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR.SHASHI THAROOR)

(a)&(b) The All India Navodaya Vidyalaya Staff Association had submitted a Charter of 23 demands. Of these, 16 demands have already been settled.

(c) It is not possible to lay down a strict time line for the settlement of the demands which require inter-ministerial consultation.

(d) The Government has sympathetically considered the demand for the extension of the Pension-cum-GPF Scheme for those employees who were recruited before 1.1.2004 in the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas. In this regard inter-ministerial consultations have already been conducted but no final view has been taken.