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We volition sermon the teachers’ demands with the concern section and the Chief Minister to travel to a favourable conclusion, said School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi connected Saturday successful Chennai. Over 1,000 teachers person been protesting successful Chennai implicit the past 9 days demanding ‘equal wage for adjacent work’.
Addressing mediapersons aft an consciousness locomotion connected speechmaking wont helium said, “The teachers are asking lone what we person promised. The concern section had a fewer questions for us, for which we are preparing answers and holding discussions. Once the pension committee announcements are done, we volition soon determine connected the teachers’ matters too.”
Organised by the Secondary Grade Seniority Teachers’ Association (SSTA), they item a long-standing wage disparity. Secondary-grade teachers appointed earlier June 1, 2009, person a basal wage of ₹8,370, whereas those appointed aft June, 2009 person ₹5,200. Secondary people teachers present gully a monthly wage of ₹20,600 portion those appointed earlier person implicit Rs 28,000. As caller wage commissions person travel into force, the quality has accrued to implicit Rs 16,000. “These differences for a enactment that some of america bash and with nary higher oregon lesser enactment burden,” said a teacher from Kancheepuram.
The teachers held a protestation connected Saturday astatine the Directorate of Public Instruction (DPI) field wherever implicit 1,000 teachers were erstwhile again detained.
As schools acceptable to reopen connected January 5, the teachers are resolute successful continuing the protests. “The protests volition spell connected until our demands are met. We privation the authorities to fulfil its promise,” said Velmurugan, State vice president of SSTA.
