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The Andhra Pradesh Teachers Federation (APTF) connected Sunday (February 15, 2026) announced a phased agitation seeking solution of issues related to teachers and the acquisition sector.
The federation’s State president Ch. Manjula and wide caput K. Basavalinga Rao said that though teachers had precocious expectations from the Coalition government, determination was inactive nary advancement successful resolving their issues.
They accused the authorities of arbitrarily curtailing sanctioned permission and compelling teachers to enactment adjacent connected holidays, which they said was unacceptable. They warned that implementation of unreasonable teaching methods successful the sanction of achieving 100% walk results successful Class 10 examinations could pb to adverse consequences and claimed that though teachers were moving hard astatine the grassroots level, they were being subjected to terrible unit and intelligence accent by officials.
Finding responsibility with the determination to centralise the sanctioning of leave, they said that it was being taken distant from headmasters and Mandal Education Officers (MEOs) and it was being placed successful the hands of higher authorities astatine the State level.
Elaborating connected their protestation plan, they said that the APTF had called for a large-scale protestation successful New Delhi connected March 10, demanding exemption from the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) for teachers appointed earlier 2010. From February 23 to 28, the federation volition taxable representations to Members of Parliament, urging them to rise the TET contented successful Parliament and talk connected behalf of teachers.
They said that dharnas volition beryllium organised connected February 26 and 27 astatine each aged taluk office crossed the State successful protestation against unilateral decisions by the Education Department officials and successful enactment of their request for contiguous assignment of the 12th Pay Revision Commission (PRC) Chairman and announcement of interim relief. They said successful the 2nd phase, large-scale agitations volition beryllium held astatine territory and State levels successful April.
