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Some schoolteachers person abstained from the Social and Educational Survey duty, saying that their deputation is arbitrary and that they are facing immoderate method issues during enumeration.
Some members of the Karnataka State Primary Teachers Association submitted a missive to the State authorities saying that they volition reconsider their determination if it agreed to their request of giving exemption to the old, sick, large and disabled teachers.
They besides asked the State authorities to hole method issues and mobile web problems faced by enumerators.
Teacher representatives told reporters present connected Wednesday that elder officers of the Social Welfare and the Education departments person fixed orders to them of deputation without consulting them oregon obtaining their consent.
On Tuesday, they staged a protestation successful beforehand of the Tahsildar bureau and submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner. Most of them skipped enactment and did not study connected Wednesday too.
There are wide rules that employees aged implicit 58, sick, disabled and large should not beryllium deputed to duties different than teaching and administration. But specified rules person been thrown to the wind. In immoderate cases, adjacent the names of dormant employees and those who retired connected September 30 person figured successful the database of enumerators. Also, the areas fixed to enumerators are distant from their houses oregon schools. This volition origin a batch of inconvenience, they said.
President of the metropolis portion of the State Primary School Teachers Association Babu Sogalannavar said that enumeration would person been casual if they were to beryllium posted adjacent their houses oregon schools.
“That has not been done. Also, immoderate enumerators are facing mobile app related and web issues,” helium said.
“We are not against conducting the survey. If the strategy is fixed, the survey tin beryllium done easily. Otherwise, we volition not behaviour the survey,” helium said.
District president of the State Primary School Teachers Association Jayakumar Hebbali said that teachers should beryllium appointed for census wherever they work.
“We gave a database to exempt immoderate teachers from the survey, including those aged supra 58, the disabled, large women and those suffering from wellness problems. However, it was not done,” helium said.
He said that portion the Education Department is consenting to supply exemptions, the Social Welfare Department is not. “That is wherefore we are protesting,” helium said.
