THE government has tasked the Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) and District Executive Directors to coordinate and establish the exact amount of outstanding arrears of teachers countrywide to enable immediate payments.
In addition, the government has affirmed
that salaries for the teachers to be promoted from now onwards would be
paid immediately to avoid unnecessary accumulation of arrears.
The Prime Minister, Mr Kassim Majaliwa,
made the statement in Dar es Salaam yesterday when receiving 100m/- from
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, East African, Regional and
International Cooperation to support the school desk campaign.
The Premier said that the plans would
see the government clearing all salary and non-salary related arrears,
which the government owes teachers.
TSC have also been instructed to
indentify teachers who have been working for many years without
promotions and ensure they are upgraded and get paid their salaries.
“We (government) have tasked the TSC and
district executive directors to have in place clear principles that
would see teachers who are being promoted are instantly being paid their
required salaries,” he affirmed.
Mr Majaliwa said that the outstanding
teachers’ arrears were incurred due to poor coordination between the
then Teachers’ Service Department (TSD) that has now been changed to
Teachers’ Service Commission.
He said the formed commission’s
secretaries in the district would work closely with the district
directors to ensure enhanced payment of teachers’ salaries, improved
working environment among other requirements towards implementing the
president’s promise of providing free and quality education in the
country.
“The plan is part of the government’s
efforts to ensure quality education for our children in the course of
implementing the free education pledge,” he noted.
In another development, Mr Majaliwa has
directed councils in the country to embark on the construction of
classrooms by identifying ample space within primary and secondary
school premises to accommodate the new additions.
He said that the government was now
embarking on the second phase of ensuring quality education in primary
and secondary schools, hence the urgent need for the councils to start
building new classrooms.
“We are now embarking on the second
phase of implementing quality education in the country after we
completed the first phase that was to see we tackle the crisis of school
desks in the country,” the prime minister reported.
Mr Majaliwa said the ongoing exercise to
purchase school desks in the country has proved a success, stressing,
however, that the councils, the public and other wellwishers should
continue to donate the desks for future use. He directed the councils to
immediately start identifying land on which to build additional
classrooms.
“The councils should make sure the
schools have enough space to build the classrooms. If the areas are not
enough, they should come up with an alternative of building storeys to
accommodate the number of students that have soared due to introduction
of free education,” he further directed
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