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“Ensure power supply in the larger interest of student community”

Staff Reporter

Promoted Post-Graduate Teachers’ Association appeals to the government

PUDUKOTTAI: The district branch of the Tamil Nadu Promoted Post-Graduate Teachers’ Association has urged the State Government to ensure power supply in the night to enable students preparing for the examinations, currently on at the educational institutions.

A resolution, adopted to this effect at its meeting held here recently, said that Plus Two and SSLC students who will appear for the public examinations in March / April next year, were the worst-hit.

The government should take immediate action to ensure power supply in the larger interest of student community, the resolution said. Another resolution urged the Education Department to restore the procedure for posting the Graduate Teachers and promoted Post-Graduate Teachers as headmaster of high schools.

The meeting also wanted maternity leave to be extended to six months from the present three months for women teachers, on the lines of the announcement made by the Central Government. Resolutions pleading for expeditious implementation of the recommendations of the VI Pay Commission and promotion on the basis of seniority of joining duty were also adopted.

The following were elected office bearers of the district branch of the association: K. S. Rajendran, president; M. Pitchaivelu, vice-president; S. Sabarinathan, secretary; L. George, joint secretary; R. Saravanan, organising secretary; S. Kannan, treasurer and S. Selvi, Women’s wing organiser. Explaining the resolutions to the mediapersons, the state vice-president of the Association, K. Dravidaselvam, said that the tripping of power in the night or early hours of the day posed a hurdle to the students preparing for the examinations.

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