In support of their various demands, the teachers belonging to Rajkeeya Shikshak Sangh (RSS) organised a massive protest in the State capital on Tuesday. On the call given by RSS, the association of lecturers and lecturer Teachers (lTs) about 25,000 teachers across the State went on a mass one day leave as mark of their protest.
On the day, the members of the association assembled at the State education directorate and held a Dharna. Speaking on the occasion the leaders of the association blamed the State government for regularly ignoring the demands of the teachers.
The RSS seemed particularly peeved over the fact that despite many rounds of talks with Government, senior officers and State education minister nothing concrete has emerged. The State education minister, Mantri Prasad Naihani called the senior leaders of the organisation on August 4 and assured that all their demands would be accepted within a week. However his assurance too went astray.
After Dharna, at the directorate at Nanoor Kheda the teachers decided to take a secretariat march. The police stopped the march near Nalapani Chowk. A minor skirmish broke out between the agitated teachers and the police which led to arrest of some of them.
The arrested were later released by the police. Meanwhile the teachers reassembled at parade ground and sat on a Dharna there. A delegation of the teachers was invited in the evening by the state government for talks with CM Harish Rawat. At the time of filing this story the Dharna of teachers was continuing and the delegation was waiting at the State Secretariat for meeting with CM.
The second largest association of government teachers, the RSS is demanding provision of three day earned leave, assured career progression, regular annual transfers and payment of travel allowance which is in sync with the geographical condition of the state. It is also demanding that all those who qualified the examination of Block and Cluster Resource Persons (BRP and CRP) should be given appointments without any further delay.
The association wants that no action should be taken against any teacher without proper investigation of the charges made and that the education department should brings in the requisite amendments in the transfer policy.
