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Teachers successful government-aided colleges and affiliated to the MUTA (Madurai Kamaraj, Manonmaniam Sundaranar, Mother Teresa and Alagappa University Teachers’ Association) staged a roadworthy roko present connected Saturday demanding contiguous disbursal of vocation advancement strategy wage arrears.
The protesting teachers said the State government, which was giving the vocation advancement wage to authorities assemblage teachers, was refusing to widen the aforesaid to the teachers of aided colleges for the past 4 years. Consequently, the Associate Professors could not usher further students successful the Ph. D. programme.
“Even though the Minister for Higher Education had promised to code this anomaly, steps person not been taken truthful acold to fulfil this assurance. Hence, we sent email to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to property our demand. We submitted petitions to each MLAs. Since the State authorities is not acceptable to perceive to our genuine grievance, we staged sit-in protestation adjacent arsenic the Assembly league was on. However, determination has been nary effect from the Department of Higher Education. If the authorities is inactive adamant, we volition commencement indefinite agitation,” said the protesting teachers.
As the roadworthy roko adjacent Government Siddha Medical College successful Palayamkottai paralysed the vehicular traffic, the constabulary detained 240 protesters, including 107 pistillate teachers, who were released successful the evening.
