Paying Primary Teachers Rs 7000 Monthly For Ten Years Is Bonded Labour: Supreme Court Asks UP Govt To Pay 17K

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (February 4) criticized the Uttar Pradesh government for engaging in “unfair practices,” subjecting the state's primary school teachers/instructors to a form of 'begar' by paying them a meager fixed honorarium of Rs. 7,000 per month for over a decade. Finding that the wages received by teachers were stagnant and low, a bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal...