Special Correspondent
Pune : The education department of Pune Municipal Corporation appointed about 250 temporary teaching staff in September 2025. However, even after two months, these teaching staff have not been paid yet.
As a result, the time has come for teaching staff to perform teaching service without salary. This recruitment of temporary teaching staff of the Municipal Corporation includes about 200 temporary teaching staff in Marathi medium and 50 temporary teaching staff in English medium. These teaching staff have been appointed on a six-month contract basis at a salary of twenty thousand rupees per month.
“These teachers, who do the sacred work of imparting knowledge, are teaching students wholeheartedly. But at the same time, they are struggling for their own livelihood. We have not stopped the work of imparting education. Then why did the administration stop our salary?,” the teaching staff are asking. The appointment as teaching staff in the Municipal Corporation is on a contract basis of only six months. Teachers are expressing the feeling that not getting salary in the first two months is very unfair. Meanwhile, when contacted, Deputy Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation’s Education Department, Vasundhara Barve, did not respond.
A teacher, on condition of anonymity, said, “We have been providing education services without salary for two months. We had hoped to get salary before Diwali. But due to the negligence of the administration, this hope has also faded.”
Sachin Dimble, Executive State President, Maharashtra State Municipal Corporation and Municipal Primary Teachers’ Union, said, “The municipal corporation has appointed education servants on a temporary basis for six months on September 3, 2025. It was said that these education servants will be given an honorarium of twenty thousand. However, the honorarium has not been given for two months. The municipal corporation has been continuously promising. In reality, nothing is happening. We should get the honorarium soon, otherwise we will protest strongly.”
When contacted, Sunanda Wakhre, head of the education department of the Pune Municipal Corporation, could not be contacted.
