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Under unit from teachers, who expressed dissatisfaction astatine being asked to thatch and besides behaviour the Social and Educational Survey successful Karnataka from Wednesday, the State authorities connected Tuesday extended the Dasara holidays for authorities and aided schools till October 18 to alteration completion of the survey.
While the survey being conducted by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes was to extremity connected Tuesday, authorities and aided schools were acceptable to reopen aft Dasara holidays connected Wednesday. The hold of the Dasara holidays would mean a nonaccomplishment of 8 moving days, which the authorities has said would beryllium covered with peculiar classes aft schools reopen.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah connected Tuesday said that the Department of School Education and Literacy and the committee person travel to an knowing astir the survey work. “Survey enactment has not been completed successful each districts. If the survey has reached 97% of the targeted households successful Koppal, it is astir 67% successful Dakshina Kannada. Based connected a petition from a teachers’ relation that sought different 10 days to implicit the survey, we person decided to widen the survey enactment till October 18,” the Chief Minister told presspersons here, aft helium and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar met representatives of teachers and Congress MLC Puttanna. He besides threatened enactment against teachers who bash not enactment successful the survey work.
As per an earlier bid by the Commissioner of Public Instruction Suralkar Vikas Kishor connected Monday, the schoolhouse timings had been revised to support them unfastened from 8 a.m. till 1 p.m., and teachers had been asked to behaviour the survey successful the afternoon.
The bid had extended survey enactment crossed the State till October 12 and successful Greater Bengaluru Authority portion till October 24. Teachers had expressed absorption to the statement and had sought hold of the holidays till the survey enactment is completed. The Karnataka State Primary School Teachers’ Association successful its petition requested the authorities to widen the Dasara holidays by 10 days wrong which its members who are superior and precocious schoolhouse teachers are committed to implicit the survey work.
Mr. Siddaramaiah besides said that the authorities has decided to exempt pre-university assemblage lecturers from the survey since the mid-term introspection are commencing connected October 12.
In all, helium said 1.6 lakh enumerators, including 1.2 lakh teachers, are portion of the survey. In Bengaluru, astir 6,700 teachers person been fixed work to behaviour survey of astir 10 to 15 households, and teachers person agreed to implicit the survey enactment earlier Naraka Chaturdashi (October 20), the Chief Minister said.
Mr. Shivakumar said that 90% of radical successful agrarian areas person cooperated, portion successful Greater Bengaluru Authority portion the survey is 25% of the targeted households since the enactment started later.
The authorities besides announced a compensation of ₹20 lakh each to the families of 3 teachers who person died portion undertaking survey work.
