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The Hindu
18-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Teachers' proposed protest on May 21, 23 gets support
Members of the Forum of Registered Teacher Organisations (FORTO) on Sunday declared their support to the proposed protest programmes announced by the teacher associations on May 21 and 23. In a meeting held online, representatives of various teacher organisations raised serious concern over the decisions related to the school restructuring programme and also the reapportionment of teaching staff in the State. They said that following a stiff opposition to GO 117 issued by the previous YSRCP government, the then Opposition leader N. Chandrababu Naidu had promised to repeal the GO, but the fresh GO 21 being shown as an alternative had several components which were detrimental to the school education sector and teachers' interests. Insisting that parallel medium system should be continued, they said posts of teachers, who were on study leave should not be included in the list of vacant posts, as the former would return to their respective places of work. Their other demands included implementation of the 2016 Act for the disabled teachers and regardless of the student strength, each High School should be sanctioned the posts of both Headmaster and Physical Director. The forum chairman K. Harikrishna, secretary general A. Kondayya and others were present.
The Hindu
04-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Teachers' body urges school education department to issue G.O. on school restructuring
Members of Navyandhra Teachers' Association (NTA) insisted that the school re-structuring process should be taken up by the Department of School Education only after a formal Government Order (G.O.) is issued to replace the existing G.O. 117. In a statement, association State president K. Harikrishna and general secretary M. Srinivasa Rao said the department only issued a memo and proposed major changes based on it. They also pointed out that while schools in the State offered medium of instruction in Odia, Kannada, Tamil and Urdu, students were denied Telugu medium and demanded that the Minister for Human Resource Development Nara Lokesh call for a meeting with the teachers' unions to discuss these key issues threadbare before taking a final call. Referring to the controversial G.O. 117, they said it faced stiff opposition from teachers and other stakeholders. While reports appearing in a section of media claimed that the G.O. had been withdrawn and that the school education authorities had proposed to set up nine categories of schools, a G.O. to this effect was yet to be released. They said there were reports that the officials proposed to do away with upper primary schools and warned that this would adversely impact education of girls and may encourage parents to opt for child marriage. They said teachers, especially in high schools, faced work overload in the absence of subject-wise faculty distribution and the size of classes was being expanded in violation of the Right to Education Act. They said the memo also appears to ignore previous feedback given by various teachers associations.
