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After 2 failed talks, unmet demands, and countless detainments, the secondary people teachers’ protests continued for the 30th time connected Saturday successful Chennai. Over 700 teachers were detained by the metropolis police.
“We judge our Chief Minister volition travel through. We person been protesting and crying astir our demands for a period now. The authorities volition fulfill our demands,” said P. Uma Lakshmi, a teacher from Nagapattinam.
In the astir caller talks held with the School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi and different officials connected January 14, the authorities had told the teachers they volition fto them cognize soon astir their decision. “But it’s been implicit 10 days, and we are inactive waiting for a reply. It’s the past time of the Assembly and we anticipation that an bid volition come,” said a protesting teacher from Tiruvallur district.
They are protesting to item the wage disparity among teachers wrong their wage grade. Secondary-grade teachers appointed earlier June 1, 2009, person a basal wage of ₹8,370. But those appointed aft that day lone person ₹5,200.
At present, post-2009 appointees gully a monthly wage of astir ₹20,600, including allowances, compared with astir ₹28,950 for those appointed earlier.
Organised by the Secondary Grade Seniority Teachers’ Association, implicit 20,000 secondary people teachers attached to authorities schools crossed the State person been demanding ‘Equal wage for Equal work’.
The protestation began during the half-yearly holidays. Once schools reopened, the teachers continued to protestation and the School Education section issued a circular that the protesting teachers’ missing enactment would not beryllium paid. “It would beryllium considered arsenic unpaid permission connected ‘No enactment - No pay’ basis,” the circular said.
However, teachers enactment that the 16-year wage nonaccomplishment is greater. “We person mislaid successful lakhs due to the fact that of the wage disparity successful the past 16 years. The one-month unpaid permission is nothing. We are waiting for the authorities to reply to our demands. The protests volition proceed till then,” said different teacher from Tiruvallur district.
Noting that children successful schools are losing education, the teachers said that they would gladly instrumentality to enactment if their demands were met. “We protested lone during holidays, truthful that students would not beryllium affected. We believed successful the DMK erstwhile they added our demands to their manifesto. We are pushed to our past action. It’s the past word of the authorities and we privation our answer,” the teacher added.
