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Makkal Kalvi Kootiyakkam, an acquisition forum based successful Madurai, condemned the “brutal violence” by the constabulary against the peacefully protesting secondary people teachers successful Chennai for their rights.
Terming the teachers’ apprehension arsenic unlawful, the forum’s connection read, “Though galore States successful the region person fixed the wage standard for secondary people teachers astatine ₹11,360, successful Tamil Nadu alone, it has been fixed astatine conscionable ₹8,000.”
Teachers appointed arsenic secondary people teachers earlier May 31, 2009, were fixed a basal wage of ₹8,370, whereas teachers appointed from the precise adjacent day, i.e., June 1, 2009, onwards, were fixed a reduced basal wage of ₹5,200. As a result, around 20,000 teachers have been trapped in a little wage scale, it added.
In the neighbouring Puducherry, teachers with the aforesaid acquisition qualifications were paid a amended basal wage of ₹11,360.
R. Murali, 1 of the coordinators, said successful much than 15 States, including Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Bihar and Goa, the basic wage of mediate schoolhouse teachers was ₹11,360.
As the Tamil Nadu teachers were receiving acold little than different States, teachers who joined work conscionable 1 time apart were facing a wage quality of nearly ₹20,000. This spread -- unequal wage for adjacent work-- has been causing severe intelligence distress, helium noted.
“During the AIADMK authorities successful 2018, the past person of the Opposition M.K. Stalin expressed enactment for this conflict and promised that the contented would beryllium resolved if his enactment came to power. This was besides mentioned successful the DMK’s 2021 predetermination manifesto, promising adjacent wage for adjacent work. If so, was this a promise false?” Mr. Murali asked.
During the protestation successful December 2022, the government stated that a three-member committee would beryllium formed to survey the contented and get astatine a solution and again during the October 2023 protest, it was once again stated that each issues would beryllium resolved wrong 3 months.
As the authorities did not support up its connection then, a protestation was again organised in 2024, but it faced a stiff absorption from the police and adjacent galore women protesters were manhandled by the police, helium noted.
Now, erstwhile again, during the fractional yearly holidays—ensuring nary disruption to students’ education—the teachers person been protesting for the past 4 days. Even now, they are being treated successful a highly reprehensible manner, the connection condemned.
Even aft 4 and a fractional years in power, the Chief Minister continues to garbage to adjacent see the demands of these teachers, which helium once acknowledged and supported.
The statement reiterated that the teachers should be permitted to protestation which is their basal rights enshrined successful the Constitution, the connection noted.
