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Teachers of unaided schools from antithetic districts staged a hunger protestation to request grant-in-aid successful beforehand of the Deputy Commissioner’s bureau successful Shivamogga, the autochthonal spot of Madhu Bangarappa, Minister for School Education.
The teachers began their dharna connected Wednesday (November 19), and withdrew the protestation connected Thursday evening (November 20) aft elected representatives promised that they would rise the contented successful the coming legislature session.
The protesters said they had been demanding that the State authorities authorisation grant-in-aid for backstage Kannada mean schools which were started betwixt 1995 and 2005. They had been moving successful the institutes for meagre salaries for respective years, they pointed out. During the protest, a mates of teachers fell ill, and they were shifted to McGann Hospital for treatment.
Roopa, a teacher from Gadag district, said she and galore teachers from antithetic parts of the State had taken portion successful the protest. “We person decided to proceed our protestation until the authorities fulfils our demand. We are besides acceptable to sacrifice our lives for our demand,” she stated.
The teachers stated that they resorted to a hunger protestation arsenic the authorities had not responded to their repeated pleas. The Minister for School Education did not fuss to respond to the protest, they alleged.
Shivamogga MLA S.N. Channabasappa and MLC Dr. Dhananjay Sarji met the protesters and assured that they would rise the contented successful the league to beryllium held successful Belagavi. Shivamogga Deputy Commissioner Gurudatta Hegde told the protesters helium had informed the Minister astir their pleas. Following assurances from elected representatives, the teachers withdrew the protest.
