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A module subordinate of a government-aided assemblage successful Chennai has written an unfastened missive to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister demanding assistance of promotions and wage benefits nether Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) pending for implicit 5 years, adjacent arsenic module members of assorted government-aided colleges successful the State started a continuous sit-in protestation astatine the Directorate of Collegiate Education connected Thursday.
In his letter, J. Sulaiman, a subordinate of Association of University Teachers (AUT) and president of New College Staff Association, stated that CAS benefits were partially extended to a fewer teachers successful Coimbatore and Thanjavur regions. A fewer module members approached the courts and obtained their benefits done tribunal rulings. However, a bulk of module members were looking towards the Chief Minister to guarantee that societal justness was upheld, Prof. Sulaiman wrote.
Tamil Nadu government’s G.O. No. 5 (Higher Education Department) issued connected January 11, 2021 made provisions to instrumentality CAS for authorities and aided colleges. Subsequently, the benefits were extended to authorities colleges but not to aided colleges.
The protesting module members, meanwhile, stated that owed to the denial of CAS benefits to aided assemblage teachers, they were incapable to enroll further probe scholars frankincense denying astatine slightest 1,000 economically disadvantaged agrarian students from obtaining PhD degrees. The teachers, nether the banners of AUT and MUTA (Madurai Kamaraj, Manonmaniam Sundaranar, Mother Teresa, and Alagappa University Teachers’ Association), criticised what they called discriminatory signifier against 1 acceptable of teachers though they worked nether the aforesaid acquisition system.
