Hyderabad: The State Government has issued orders upgrading the Language Pundits and PETs from Grade two to Grade One. This would mean promotion to 10,479 language pundait s and PETs working in the state, as Grade two teachers hitherto. The Principal Secretary, Finance department, J Ramakrishna Rao has issued a G O in this regard yesterday.
This decision was the result of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s assurance to them at the World Telugu conference earlier. Language pundits numbering 8,630 and PRTs numbering 1,849 will be benefitted from this order. Their pay scales were fixed from Rs.28,940 to Rs.78,910.
The Government’s decision was hailed by writer and singer Deshapati Srinivas, Chief whip in the legislative Council P Sudhakar Reddy, Teacher MLCs and leaders of Teachers organizations. (NSS)