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Aided-college lecturers affirmed that their indefinite hunger onslaught from December 8 would beryllium unavoidable if the State authorities failed to instrumentality contiguous enactment connected their outgo according to Career Advancement Scheme (CAS).
Association of University Teachers (AUT) – Madurai Kamaraj, Manonmaniam Sundaranar, Mother Terasa, Alagappa, Tamil Nadu Teachers Education and Anna University Teachers’ Association (MUTA) held a property conscionable present connected Saturday to denote their people of enactment towards pressing for their demands to the government.
A.T. Senthamarai Kannan, wide secretary, MUTA, said the superior request for the aided-college teachers was the contiguous implementation of Government Order No. 5 for CAS which granted the teachers the promotions and upgraded pay.
“Though the G.O. related to appointments and CAS benefits were issued successful 2021 and were gradually implemented for authorities assemblage teachers successful the State, each the aided assemblage teachers were near retired of the scheme,” helium added.
Following repeated representations, aided-college teachers from conscionable 2 regions – Thanjavur and Coimbatore – were included, leaving the teachers successful aided-colleges of six different regions, helium noted.
“Despite repeated representations, lone partial implementation occurred. For the past 4 years, aided assemblage teachers person received nary CAS benefits, causing terrible fiscal distress and intelligence agony,” helium contended.
A. Xavior Selvakumar, wide secretary, AUT, claimed that erstwhile the AUT-MUTA representatives met the Minister for Higher Education successful June, 2025, they were assured that the CAS arrears and wage benefits would beryllium added to the July 2025 salary.
“Unfortunately, the Tamil Nadu authorities had not honoured this assurance, and nary enactment had been taken adjacent up to October 2025,” helium added.
Further, helium feared that the Tamil Nadu Private University Amendment Bill which was introduced successful the State Assembly and was aboriginal kept connected clasp pursuing wide backlash, was an effort to crook the government-aided colleges into backstage entities.
“The amendment says that the existing norm of 100 acres of contiguous onshore is projected to beryllium reduced to 25 acres wrong municipal corp limits, 35 acres wrong municipalities oregon municipality panchayats, and 50 acres elsewhere,” helium listed.
Mr. Xavior Selvakumar said that the existent alteration of norms could beryllium a ploy to crook each the existing aided colleges operating wrong 25 acres of country into backstage universities.
“We presume that the government’s determination to hold the benefits of CAS to aided assemblage teachers for respective years had transportation with its caller Private Universities Amendment bill,” helium observed.
In summation to urging the State authorities to assistance the CAS benefits immediately, Mr. Periyasamy Raja, president, MUTA, said they were besides insisting the authorities to wholly wantonness attempts to privatise government-aided colleges, removal of the mandatory Ph.D information for promotion to subordinate professors nether CAS and outgo of M.Phil/PhD inducement increments to each authorities and aided-college teachers.
“Pressing our demands we are to observe a one-day token hunger onslaught successful Madurai, Tirunelveli and Chennai on November 6, and pursuing a continuous sit-in protestation astatine the Directorate of Collegiate Education successful Chennai from November 12 to 14,” helium added.
If the demands were inactive unmet, helium said that each the government-aided assemblage teachers successful the State would commencement their indefinite hunger onslaught from December 8.
