PM: I KNOW TEACHERS' PROBLEMS
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ Indeed, the education sphere has several problems, and the cabinet is taking step-by-step measures to tackle them, said S.Batbold PM.
It was said on Wednesday at meeting with a delegation of teachers who are striking demanding the government to make pay rise. Together with the PM were J.Batzorig, a head of the Trade Unions for Education and Science; Yo.Otgonbayar, the Minister of Education, Culture and Science; and T.Gandi, the Minister of Social Welfare and Labor.
The teachers said they want the cabinet to double teachers' salaries, to enroll them in the apartments program, and to solve many social problems. They said they cannot understand why the cabinet, when approving the state budget for 2012, had ignored the trilateral agreement established in October this year.
The Premier replied that "the government is attaching a special importance to the educational sector", that a matter of human development is the core of the governmental policy. “According to the law on the budget, the education is to receive 20 percent of the budget money but the government is spending for it over one third of the state budget,” he said.
The problems cannot be solved instantly, "for this, we must have real basis, plus, we should bear in mind risks such as inflation or price boom,” he added.
The Premier said he strictly keeps a principle to increase the labor rating for Mongolians and promised to pay attention to the teachers' requirements. In accordance with the trilateral agreement, the salaries are to augment not only for teachers but also for all state servants.
He asked the teachers to stop the strike, adding interests of pupils must not be violated due to the problem. He said a working group has been set up headed by Yo.Otgonbayar and T.Gandi ministers, and proposed to start with it consultation as the trilateral agreement requires.
B.Khuder
It was said on Wednesday at meeting with a delegation of teachers who are striking demanding the government to make pay rise. Together with the PM were J.Batzorig, a head of the Trade Unions for Education and Science; Yo.Otgonbayar, the Minister of Education, Culture and Science; and T.Gandi, the Minister of Social Welfare and Labor.
The teachers said they want the cabinet to double teachers' salaries, to enroll them in the apartments program, and to solve many social problems. They said they cannot understand why the cabinet, when approving the state budget for 2012, had ignored the trilateral agreement established in October this year.
The Premier replied that "the government is attaching a special importance to the educational sector", that a matter of human development is the core of the governmental policy. “According to the law on the budget, the education is to receive 20 percent of the budget money but the government is spending for it over one third of the state budget,” he said.
The problems cannot be solved instantly, "for this, we must have real basis, plus, we should bear in mind risks such as inflation or price boom,” he added.
The Premier said he strictly keeps a principle to increase the labor rating for Mongolians and promised to pay attention to the teachers' requirements. In accordance with the trilateral agreement, the salaries are to augment not only for teachers but also for all state servants.
He asked the teachers to stop the strike, adding interests of pupils must not be violated due to the problem. He said a working group has been set up headed by Yo.Otgonbayar and T.Gandi ministers, and proposed to start with it consultation as the trilateral agreement requires.
B.Khuder
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