Pondy to implement ACP

Puducherry, Sep 3 (UNI) The Puducherry administration will implement the Assured Career Progression (ACP) scheme for teachers in the Union Territory, Chief Minister N Rangasamy said today.

Addressing a press conference here, Mr Rangasamy said the matter was taken up with the Centre and concurrence obtained. The ACP would be implemented with retrospective effect from 1999, entailing an additional expenditure of Rs one crore per annum to the exchequer .

As many as 3,000 teachers would be beneficiaries of the scheme.

The Rs 66-crore works on the Karaikal-Nagore railway line would start next month he said adding the aministration would contribute 50 per cent of the cost, subject to approval by the Centre.

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