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Rajasthan teachers to hold protest rally

Jaipur: Nearly 5,000 teachers in Rajasthan will organise a protest rally on November 27 to press for their various demands, including recruitment of new teachers and regularisation of those working on contract.

The teachers, under the aegis of Rajasthan Shikshak Sangh (Shekhawat), will hold the protest rally and court arrest on November 27, Mahaveer Sihag, general secretary of the Sangh, told reporters here.

Holding the Vasundhara Raje government and the previous regimes in the State responsible for “overburdening” the teachers, he said that they were given more responsibilities other than their primary task of teaching. Accusing the State Government of not fulfilling the promises made to the teachers, Mr. Sihag further said that many posts of physical teachers, third grade teachers and others are laying vacant as the government is delaying their recruitment.

“I think there is a desperate need to recruit at least 90,000 teachers in Rajasthan. Though the state government is upgrading the primary and middle schools into secondary schools, it is not hiring teachers in the same proportion,” he said. — PTI

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