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HYDERABAD: About three lakh teachers will go on an indefinite strike from Wednesday, affecting over 40,000 schools, following a decision to this effect by the Joint Action Committee of Teachers’ Organisations (JACTO-AP). The organisation that represents 22 teachers unions announced this decision as it was peeved over the government’s failure to resume the inconclusive talks to discuss the long pending demands of the teachers. As a result, government, Zilla Parishad, Mandal Praja Parishad, aided, municipal and tribal schools, which have nearly two crore students on their rolls, will not function. Futile waitThe talks between JACTO and School Education Minister Damodar Rajanarsimha, scheduled for Tuesday, were not resumed as the government held talks only with the teacher MLCs. JACTO steering committee members who waited in vain till late in the evening for an invitation from the government, announced the Statewide strike. They said that they had little hope of the government giving them a written assurance on their demands mainly related to unified service rules, promotions and transfer of teachers, etc., and decided to go ahead with their strike. Firm standJACTO leaders, who served the strike notice about a month ago, had been maintaining that they would not swerve from the strike call without a concrete assurance on their specific demands. “We will not withdraw our strike without issuance of GOs,” JACTO leaders said. The teachers plan to take out rallies in all mandal headquarters for the next three days and court arrest after picketing Collectorates on October 25. The future programme would be chalked out on October 26, APTF president K. Venugopal said.
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