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PDF subordinate of the Legislative Council (MLC) Borra Gopi Murthy connected Wednesday raised interest implicit what helium called ‘exploitative moving conditions faced by women teachers’ successful Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) and urged the authorities to amended their salaries and regularise their employment.
Speaking astatine a hunger onslaught by the members of KGBV Teachers’ Federation astatine Dharna Chowk demanding implementation of minimum clip standard pay, wage revisions and regularisation of services, the MLC assured the protesting teachers of his continued enactment until their demands were fulfilled.
Former MLC K. S. Lakshmana Rao criticised the authorities for ‘failing to uphold its commitment’ to women empowerment and alleged that KGBV teachers were being forced to enactment nether ‘unfair conditions’. He demanded that the teachers’ salaries beryllium revised successful accordance with the stipulated norms.
APJAC person A.V. Nageswara Rao said astir 5,700 KGBV teachers successful Andhra Pradesh had been ‘working nether discriminatory conditions for the past 25 years’. He called for the correction of wage disparities and implementation of the Supreme Court judgments related to adjacent wage and work benefits.
The hunger onslaught was led by the association’s State honorary president K. Vijayagouri, who questioned wherefore the authorities was failing to recognise the services of KGBV teachers, who not lone thatch miss students but besides service arsenic caretakers and guardians successful residential schools. She appealed to the HRD Minister Nara Lokesh to resoluteness their issues immediately.
Asspciation State president P. Tejeswari and wide caput G. Sreerekha demanded implementation of the Supreme Court directives, paid aesculapian permission and regularisation of services for KGBV teachers.
Women teachers from each districts participated successful the hunger strike. Later, a memorandum connected their demands was submitted to the elder officials of the department.
