barnala the about seven thousand computer teachers in punjab are working without salaries for the last six months this despite punjab cabinet having cleared the file more than two months back well before model code of conduct came in force before the announcement of election schedule the file for the release of salaries is shuffling between finance and other departments as finance authorities are citing the reason that department has no approval to release funds endlessly waiting for salaries the computer teachers union is making rounds to chief minister office and finance department but to no avail computer teachers were recruited by punjab information and communication technology education societypictes in 200405 their salaries were revised twice in 2006 and 2009 before their services being regularizes on july 1 2011 after regularization of salaries computer teachers got salaries for july and august but not since then we have the copies of the minutes of punjab council of ministers wherein on december 17 2011 cabinet has given its consent to use rs 11060 crore for salaries to computer teachers the principal secretary finance and other department officials were present in the meeting but now the authorities are sitting over the file of their salaries said computer teachers union state president gurvinder singh and press secretary nirmal singh the union leaders said the ict branch head of director general school educationdgsehas apprised them that the objections raised by finance department about approval of salary funds have been cleared that at least thrice but only finance department knows better why the salaries have not been released so far the services of computer teachers were regularized only recently but teachers are made to work without salaries said union leaders adding we are approaching punjab state human rights commission finance secretary was not available for comments