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Dalit units, CPI (M) seek withdrawal of notification removing roaster system

Special Correspondent

`The 1997 notification is against the provisions of the Constitution'

FOR TEACHERS' CAUSE: Leaders of various Dalit organisations and the CPI(M) staging a protest in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office in Gulbarga on Monday.

GULBARGA: Leaders of the various Dalit organisations and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Monday joined forces with the North Eastern Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe High School Headmasters and Assistant Teachers Association demanding that the Government withdraw the notification issued in 1997 removing the roaster system in the promotion of assistant teachers to Grade I and headmasters' post in government and aided schools in the State.

Leaders of Dalit organisations, including the Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (Sagar), the Republican Party of India (Atwale), the Dalit Panthers, the Dalit Sena, and the leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), led by the State Secretariat member, Maruti Manpade, R.K. Hudgi, took out a procession from Ambedkar statue in Jagat Circle to the Deputy Commissioner's office and submitted a memorandum addressed to Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, to the Revenue Department officials.

The memorandum pointed out that the Government in 1997 issued a notification in violation of the provisions of the Constitution guaranteeing reservation in promotion to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe employees working in government departments and this deprived a large number of teachers of promotion.

The memorandum said as per the previous orders issued by the Government in 1967 and 1988 reservation in promotion to assistant teachers to Grade I and headmasters' posts was given till the 1997 notification. The order for promoting high school assistant teachers to Grade I post and later as headmasters was originally extended only to teachers working in government high schools. However, in 1994 it was extended to teachers in aided schools also.

The memorandum pointed out that as per the 1997 notification none of the teachers belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes will be eligible for promotion as headmasters for many years to come. The leaders said the notification is illegal and in violation of the Constitution and hence, the Government should immediately withdraw it.

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