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Moves are afoot to determination acquisition from the Concurrent List to the Union List and bring it nether nonstop power of the Union government, Rajya Sabha MP P.P. Suneer has alleged.
He was speaking aft inaugurating a dharna organised by the All Kerala School Teachers’ Union (AKSTU) successful beforehand of the Secretariat present connected Wednesday.
Mr. Suneer further alleged that attempts were connected to drawback the State’s rights nether the pretext of the National Education Policy. Referring to the Union authorities withholding acquisition funds meant for the States, helium said this was being done with the nonsubjective of implementing its communal docket and get States to bash its bidding.
The dharna raised assorted demands specified arsenic wage revision, withdrawal of contributory pension, reappraisal by Kerala of the Supreme Court ruling connected the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET), and extortion for teachers till the higher secondary level.
The AKSTU estimates that astir 60,000 teachers whitethorn beryllium affected by the SC ruling connected TET.
AKSTU president K.K. Sudhakaran presided implicit the dharna, successful which wide caput O.K. Jayakrishnan spoke.
