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Teachers to go on fast from July 22

DAVANGERE: Teachers and other employees of unaided schools and colleges in the State, under the aegis of the “Karnataka Rajya Shala Collagugala Shikshakara, Noukarara Hagu Adalitha Mandaligala Mahamandali,” have decided to stage an indefinite fast from July 22 in Bangalore, demanding that the Government fulfil several of their demands.

Speaking to presspersons here on Sunday, C.H. Gowdar, president of the mahamandali, said there were over 9,000 unaided schools and colleges in the State, and over 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff had been working in such institutions without any fixed remuneration. It was high time the Government released grants to these institutions not only to improve them, but also to ensure that their employees were regularly paid.

Mr. Gowdar said that if the Government had to impose conditions on unaided institutions in order for them to receive grants, they should stipulate that they be functional for seven years, apart from possessing adequate infrastructure. Describing this suggestion as ideal while judging whether an unaided institution was committed to the cause of education, he said such institutions should be given grants. Most unaided schools and colleges in the State had fulfilled both these criteria, he said and added that only a few institutions which had been set up were not really functioning. Grade “D” workers of these institutions should also be paid salaries on a par with the employees of government and aided institutions, he said.

The mahamandali urged the Government to bring in a uniform education policy and demanded the formation of a Sixth Pay Commission on the lines of that set up by the Union Government.

It said the demand had been submitted some time back, but it had fallen on deaf ears. In order to draw the attention of the Government, employees of unaided educational institutions had decided to go on an indefinite fast, it added.

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