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Residential school teachers demand confirmation of services

BANGALORE: Over 1,300 teachers of Morarji Desai Model Residential Schools and Navodaya Model Residential Schools, who have worked on temporary basis for several years, have urged the Government to confirm their services.

Their future has become uncertain following the Government’s recent order that they should pass a Common Entrance Test (CET) to continue as teachers. Some of them have already put in 13 years of service.

Concession has been given only to those recruited by the Social Welfare Department.

They will get grace marks of five in the CET for each year of service; the maximum grace marks given will be 25. Also, the eligibility criterion for taking the CET is minimum of 60 per cent in degree and B.Ed.

Speaking at a press conference here on Thursday, Aravind Chokkadi of Shikshanakkagi Rajya Maithrikoota said that the teachers were competent and had managed to get good results for schools all these years. Since they were teaching in residential schools, they shouldered teaching responsibilities as wells as looked after the welfare of the children, he said. On the 60 per cent eligibility criterion, Mr. Chokkadi said: “Some of us did B.Ed. 15 years ago, when the evaluation process was very strict.

This means that a section of teachers with long years of service will not qualify because they have not secured 60 per cent marks.”

Mr. Chokkadi said that Governor Rameshwar Thakur had directed the authorities concerned to confirm the services of these teachers.

Writer U.R. Ananthamurthy has urged Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and Minister for Social Welfare to confirm the services of these teachers on humanitarian grounds.

At a press conference here on Friday, Karnataka Morarji Desai and Navodaya Madari Vasati Shalegala Pranshupala Mathu Shikshakara Horata Samiti also urged the Government to regularise the services of the teachers.

G.J. Gupta and Veeresh, members of the samiti, said that the samiti would launch an indefinite strike from July 7.

In the Education Department, Health Department and Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited, the services of contract workers had been confirmed on humanitarian grounds. The same system should be adopted in the case of the school teachers too, they added.

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