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Teachers’ woes unresolved
Even one year after promising to address the issues of teachers in the State, the Telangana government is yet to make a move in that direction. Interacting with teachers during Teachers’ Day celebrations last year, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had promised to look in to unified service rules, a long pending demand of school teachers. But even till date the government has failed to address the issue.
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Hyderabad: Even one year after promising to address the issues of teachers in the State, the Telangana government is yet to make a move in that direction. Interacting with teachers during Teachers’ Day celebrations last year, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had promised to look in to unified service rules, a long pending demand of school teachers. But even till date the government has failed to address the issue.
Also, the teachers wanted the government to upgrade the pundit and physical education teacher posts in schools and sought promotion of school assistants as junior lecturers. “The government should take up the recruitment and fill the vacancies in schools,” said Chava Ravi, General Secretary, United Teachers Federation.
If that was the case with school teachers, government junior colleges in the State have been battling for permanent staff and buildings. While a total of 6000 junior lecturers are working in the colleges, only 1800 are permanent staff and 4200 are working on contract.
There are 402 government junior colleges that are functional in the State, but in more than 50 per cent of these colleges principal posts are vacant for the past several years. About 75 colleges have been functioning without any sanctioned posts and no regular buildings. “The government should sanction the posts and also recruit both teaching and non-teaching staff.
It should also strengthen the colleges,” said Dr P Madhusudhan Reddy, President, Government Junior Colleges Lecturers Association. On the other hand, the security has become a big concern for the university teachers. They are living in a state of constant fear of attack by students for following discharging their duties by following rules.
The absence of regular vice-chancellors has added to the woes of teachers. This has affected administration and academics. “We have asked the government to speed up the process of appointment of vice chancellors. We have demanded health cards and sought the enhancement of superannuation to age 65 from the present 60.
The government is yet to take a decision on all these aspects,” said Prof Battu Satyanarayana, President, Telangana State Federation of Universities Teachers’ Association.
