Solve our issues, teachers pressurise govt

​Khammam: Telangana Progressive Teachers Federation (TPTF) state general secretary V Manohar Raju demanded the government announce the schedule of transfers and promotions of teachers along with solving the service rule problems of the teachers.

Led by Upadyaya Sanghala Porata Samiti, hundreds of teachers staged a maha dharna at Dharna Chowk in front of the Collectorate in Khammam on Thursday.

Addressing the teachers, Manohar Raju said that even after completing three years rule, the TRS government was negligent in solving teachers’ issues and failed to solve even a single issue till date.

By encouraging private education sectors, the government was trying to dissolve government education system in the State instead of strengthening it.

One can understand why this was happening as the Nizamabad MP K Kavitha was President for Private School Association, he alleged.

Even after removing certain hurdles by Supreme Court for the implementation of Consolidated Service Rules, the Chief Minister, K Chandrashekar Rao, was not taking any initiation to solve the problem in the State, he pointed out.

The government education sector will not survive without implementation of Consolidated Service Rules in the State and about 90 per cent of Mandal Education Officers posts are still vacant in the State along with Diet lecturer posts, he alleged.

By understanding the problems which the teachers have been facing, the government must implement the Consolidated Service Rules immediately along with releasing the schedule for transfers and promotions of the teachers, he demanded.

He also demanded the government upgradation of Language Pandit, PET and special teachers along with issuing notional increments and health cards for teachers and releasing the pending bills of PRC’s immediately otherwise they will intensify the movement to teach the government a fitting lesson, he warned.

District Congress party president Aiytam Sathyam, CITU district president K Narasimha Rao, IFTU state general secretary A Ashok, representatives of Junior Lecturers Association V Srinivas and M Satish extended their support to the teachers by visiting dharna.

TSUTF state vice-president Ch Durga Bhavani, STF state general secretary D Saidulu, TSUTF district president G V Nageshwar Rao, TPTF district president V Venkateshwarlu, TSPTA district president S K Hussain, G Rajashekar, SK Mahabub Ali, P Nagi Reddy and M Kantha Rao were also present along with others.