Overview
- The UP Cabinet, which met Tuesday, lifted monthly pay for 1.43 lakh Shiksha Mitras to ₹18,000 and for 24,717 part-time instructors to ₹17,000.
- The revision applies from April 1, with the higher amounts to show up in May payouts, and will be paid for 11 months each year.
- For 1,29,332 workers funded under the 60:40 Samagra Shiksha pattern, the state will seek the Centre’s share, and it pledged to absorb ₹1,138.12 crore if approval is denied.
- Ministers cleared a final bid to buy 25 lakh tablets for free distribution to students in higher, technical, health and skill programmes, building on about 60 lakh devices already given with ₹2,000 crore budgeted this year.
- The package also cleared a new medical college in Ballia to be built on prison department land with the district hospital integrated, part of 22 proposals passed across education, health and land rights.