Angry teachers have protested government's shocking decision to pay them with freshly hatched chicks instead of the normal cash.
Hatched chicks (Photo:Getty)
Teachers in Uzbekistan were left in shock after government paid them with chickens instead of cash. The angry teachers complained that they want cash instead of the chickens given to them.
According to Metro.co.uk, authorities in Nukus, in the autonomous Karakalpakstan Republic near the border with Turkmenistan, gave staff freshly hatched chicks as they had run out of money, Radio Ozodlik reports.
One angry teacher told the channel: ‘Last year they paid us with potatoes, carrots and pumpkins. This year they are forcing us to take newborn chickens instead of our wages. If we need chickens we can buy them from a market at a much cheaper rate.’
Another source, speaking anonymously so as not to draw the government’s ire, said the chickens were valued at more than double what they were actually worth.
The teachers have continued to complain saying they cannot take the chickens as it is almost worthless.