Chandigarh, April 7 -- School counsellors in UT are being paid for only 10 months a year, their salaries remain withheld during summer, winter, and autumn breaks, despite CBSE affiliation norms mandating that counsellors be employed full-time. While teachers working under samagra shiksha continue to wait for dearness allowance arrears owed to them for the period from 2021 to 2023, leaving the Chandigarh Teachers Association (CTA) with little choice but to threaten a street agitation if the administration fails to act.

The CTA says repeated assurances have yielded no concrete action. A recent meeting with the education secretary on the counsellors' salary issue ended with fresh promises, but no follow through. On the arrears, the associat...