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Thousands of teachers staged a monolithic protestation successful Vijayawada connected Tuesday, demanding contiguous enactment to code their longstanding grievances, including accrued workload from non-teaching duties and fiscal strain owed to delayed arrears.
The protest, dubbed ‘Poru Bata’, was organised by the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Teachers’ Organisations (FAPTO) astatine Dharna Chowk to gully the government’s attraction to these issues. Leaders of FAPTO’s State committee announced that teachers would boycott each non-teaching activities, including the Vidya Shakti programme, a technology-driven remedial acquisition inaugural for struggling students. Vidya Shakti conducts after-school online sessions aimed astatine improving learning outcomes, reducing dropout rates, and enhancing the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) successful authorities schools.
FAPTO president L. Sai Srinivas said the TDP-led conjugation authorities had failed to fulfil its earlier committedness of relieving teachers from non-teaching duties. Citing superior fiscal difficulties owed to pending arrears, helium demanded the contiguous merchandise of dues, the announcement of the 12th Pay Revision Commission, and 30% Interim Relief. He besides called for the implementation of unified work rules, merchandise of status benefits and surrendered permission encashments, abolition of the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), and bringing teachers recruited done the 2003 DSC nether the Old Pension Scheme.
Federation caput wide S. Chiranjeevi urged the authorities to name kin of teachers who died portion serving successful mandal and zilla parishads connected compassionate grounds, merchandise posting orders for remaining candidates of the 1998 DSC batch, and regularise teachers recruited successful 1998 and 2008 DSC batches. He besides demanded the contiguous merchandise of 4 pending Dearness Allowances (DAs) and criticised alleged backdoor practices successful teacher transfers. Additional demands included strengthening High School Plus by appointing much teachers and raising the status property to 62 for teachers successful Gurukuls, residential schools, and societies crossed the State.
The protestation saw information from MLC B. Gopi Murthy, erstwhile MLCs K.S. Lakshmana Rao and K. Narasimha Reddy, AP JAC Chairman A. Vidyasagar, APNGOs State wide caput D.V. Ramana, and representatives of assorted teacher organisations.
