Teachers union slams government for delay in resolution of issues

Leaders of Andhra Pradesh Teachers Federation (APTF) demonstrated astatine territory centres connected Tuesday, registering protestation against the government’s nonaccomplishment to initiate measures to code their long-pending issues.

The federation’s State president G. Hrudaya Raju and caput Y.S. Chiranjeevi successful a property merchandise said they were forced to protest, arsenic their repeated pleas to the authorities failed to output immoderate results. They said the authorities acrophobic failed to rise their issues successful the ongoing Assembly sessions.

Mr. Hrudaya Raju participated successful dharnas staged successful Kurnool and Nandyal districts, portion the federation’s honorary president A. Sadashiva Rao took portion successful the protestation successful Vizianagaram district. Mr. Chiranjeevi participated successful the protestation astatine Nellore and federation person G. Satyanarayana took portion successful Krishna district.

The protesting teachers demanded the contiguous constitution of the 12th Pay Revision Commission and announcement of a 30 per cent interim relief, merchandise of the 4 D.A. instalments pending since July 1, 2024, the D.A. arrears owed from July 1, 2018, the 11th PRC arrears and outgo of surrendered-leave arrears without delay.

They besides urged the authorities to supply compassionate appointments to children of teachers who died portion serving successful the Panchayati Raj Department, steps to guarantee that teachers are not assigned non-teaching duties, exemption from Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) for in-service teachers, contiguous outgo of gratuity, leave-encashment and different arrears to retired teachers, filling up the vacant posts successful higher secondary (Plus) schools, summation status property of teachers moving successful Gurukulas, societies and MTS from 60 to 62 years and regularisation of their services.

Their different demands included implementtion of GPF for municipal teachers and inclusion of aided teachers nether the EHS scheme, assignment of a committee to instrumentality communal work rules, implementation of the 57-memo and issuance of the related GO for OPS and convening of a gathering by the Education Minister to resoluteness issues of teachers moving successful municipal, Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) and Model Schools.