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‘Resume grant-in-aid to institutions'

Staff Reporter

Government decided to provide grant-in-aid
to certain institutions in 2007
The process came to an abrupt halt in 2009

BANGALORE: The Karnataka State Secondary Teachers' Association on Friday urged the Government to implement its decision of providing grant-in-aid to educational institutions started between 1987 and 1995 in its entirety.

At a convention of teachers from schools and colleges, who were eligible for grant-in-aid as per the Government decision organised here, association president and former MLA K. Balakrishna Bhat noted that the Government had abruptly stopped providing grant-in-aid in the year 2009, citing austerity measures.

Mr. Bhat said the Government had taken a decision in 2007 to provide grant-in-aid to Kannada-medium primary, secondary, higher secondary and pre-university colleges that were started by private managements between 1987 and 1995. After the 2007 decision, about 500 institutions received grant-in-aid. While the process of receiving applications and processing them was on, the government in 2009 stopped providing grant citing austerity measures on account of floods in north Karnataka, he said.

With this decision, teachers working in more than 1,000 institutions were deprived of their rightful due. He said the teachers had been working for more than two decades for a meagre salary and in some cases for no salary.

Meanwhile, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri visited the convention venue and received the memorandum submitted by the association.

He said the Government is committed to honour its decision and steps will be taken to provide grant-in-aid to the remaining institutions.

More than 2,500 teachers attended the convention.

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