Part-time teachers continue to protest for permanent appointment
In Chennai, over 50 teachers staged a protest near Sivanandam Salai.
A team of teachers also met chief secretary N Muruganandam and school education secretary B Chandramohan, seeking the fulfilment of their demands. "Chief secretary said that our demands cannot be met at the moment as new posts must be created. Getting financial sanctions will be difficult," said S Murali of TN Special Teachers Association. "DMK's election manifesto promised our posts would be made permanent.
How many more days does this govt need to fulfil this?" he questioned.
On Tuesday, several teachers who protested were detained across the state. Cases were filed against 1,900 teachers across the state.
"In Chennai, they were detained in marriage halls and released later in the evening," said TN part-time teachers federation's Chennai secretaryK Natramizhan.
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The primary demand of these teachers centre around making their appointments permanent, but teachers are also seeking better pay and health insurance.
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"We were appointed under the SSA in 2012. Even after a decade, we get 12,500 a month. Even this amount is not disbursed in one go. The 10 lakh medical insurance promised by minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi when we intensified our protests last year has not come through yet," said Senthil Kumaran, state coordinator of the part-time teachers federation.
Most of these demands are brushed aside on the grounds that we work only for a few hours, a teacher said.
"Many times, our HMs make us work the entire day. We are sidelined at work if we don't do that," he said.
The part-time teachers were hired in 2012 to teach eight subjects under the scheme, including music, arts, and tailoring. Today, the number of teachers has come down to just over 11,000 from 16,000 in 2012, Kumaran said. "We will intensify the protest," added Natramizhan.
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