Ahmedabad: About one lakh primary school teachers in the state have not received their monthly salaries because salary grants were not released at the start of the new financial year. Typically, teachers receive their salaries by the fifth of every month.Gujarat has approximately 1.72 lakh primary schoolteachers. While some talukas managed to pay salaries to about 80,000 teachers through internal or self-generated funds, a large number remained unpaid. The situation has placed many educators under financial strain, as they struggle to manage household expenses, loan repayments, children’s education costs and other daily responsibilities without timely income.Taking the issue seriously, the Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh submitted a representation to the education secretary, urging the immediate release of pending grants and the timely disbursement of salaries. The association also demanded a more streamlined system to ensure advance allocation of grants to districts, preventing such delays in the future.After the representation was made, the education department released Rs 139.80 crore in grants to six districts: Ahmedabad (Rs 56.70 crore), Surat (Rs 43.80 crore), Vadodara (Rs 13.80 crore), Rajkot (Rs 11.20 crore), Bhavnagar (Rs 9.50 crore) and Jamnagar (Rs 4.80 crore). Additionally, grants totalling Rs 1,341.55 crore were released for the remaining 34 districts.In total, Rs 1,481 crore has now been disbursed across the state. With the release of these funds, teachers are expected to receive their pending salaries soon.
