Private teachers press for job security, health cards and welfare measures

Teachers’ MLC for the combined Godavari districts Borra Gopi Murthy connected Sunday urged the authorities to contented individuality and wellness cards, found a payment committee and payment fund, and guarantee occupation information for backstage teachers and lecturers successful the State.

Addressing a league organised by the Private Teachers, Lecturers and Professors Welfare Association (PTLPWA) astatine the UTF State bureau here, Mr. Murthy said these demands could beryllium achieved lone done unity and sustained corporate unit connected the government.

Former MLC and Jana Vignana Vedika State president K. S. Lakshmana Rao said backstage acquisition institutions present accounted for a larger stock of pupil enrolment than authorities institutions and credited backstage teachers for the world show of these institutions. However, helium said, galore backstage teachers were neither paid minimum wages nor fixed salaries for each 12 months of the twelvemonth and were often denied dignity astatine the workplace.

Referring to G.O. No. 1 issued astir 3 decades ago, Mr. Lakshmana Rao said it mandated allocation of 50% of organization interest collections towards teachers’ salaries, but alleged that respective backstage managements had failed to instrumentality it. He called for a agreed conflict to guarantee its enforcement and demanded a toll-free fig done which teachers could straight taxable their grievances to the government.

CITU State wide caput A. V. Nageswara Rao said employees crossed acquisition institutions should unite connected communal issues. He said non-teaching unit should besides beryllium brought into the question and suggested the usage of representations, online petitions and wide signature campaigns to gully the government’s attraction to their problems.

PTLPWA State convenor M. Surya Rao demanded timely outgo of capable salaries, hold of each holidays applicable to authorities acquisition institutions to backstage acquisition unit arsenic well, and a 24-hour toll-free fig to alteration teachers to study issues relating to managements.

The league was presided implicit by N. Lenin Babu. PTLPWA Prakasam territory president Kiran and relation leaders Srivani, Srinivas Reddy, Srinivas, Ramana, Madhu, Suresh Babu and Vasu Nayak besides spoke. Later, a 23-member State convening committee was elected unanimously.