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The All Kerala School Teachers’ Union (AKSTU) took retired a march to the Secretariat connected Saturday evening raising a slew of demands, including that the State retreat from the PM SHRI strategy and corrective measures to code what it described arsenic the neglect of the wide acquisition assemblage successful the Revised Budget.
The relation demanded that the United Democratic Front (UDF) wantonness the determination to instrumentality PM SHRI successful the State. The strategy was a mode devised by the Union authorities to instrumentality the National Education Policy (NEP) that promotes communalisation and saffronisation, the AKSTU said. K. Padmanabhan, AKSTU State secretary, called the Revised Budget disappointing saying it ignored authorities employees and teachers,
The AKSTU said the revised wage should person been implemented with effect from July 1, 2024. Although the erstwhile Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities had announced the 12th Pay Revision Commission and directed it to taxable a study wrong 3 months, the committee could not relation arsenic elections were announced. Instead of extending the word of the commission, the caller UDF authorities has frozen it. The revised Budget is soundless astir the wage revision. Not lone is determination nary allocation successful the Budget for the summation successful pay, the magnitude earmarked for wage and pension is ₹8,000 crore little that what the erstwhile LDF authorities had allocated, the AKSTU said.
AKSTU Thiruvananthapuram territory portion president Praveen. S presided implicit the event.
