The woman teachers of the Telangana State government’s Model Schools took the police by surprise when they suddenly turned up in large numbers at the Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao's camp-office-cum-residence here at Somajiguda on Monday.
While the worried Punjagutta police rushed additional police forces to the camp office, the gathering of the teachers told them that they were there to request the Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to relieve them of the “burden of non-teaching work”.
Large gathering
of teachers
Even as the police officials were eliciting information from the gathering, teachers continued to assemble there coming in small groups from different directions.
This only strengthened the suspicions of the police that if the teachers were planning to stage any demonstration creating law and order problem. “Since more than 90 per cent of the teachers assembled there were women and didn’t raise slogans, we shifted them to a side and sought to know what they were up to,” said the police.
The teachers’ leaders told the police that they were being asked to work as wardens of the schools and being burdened with other works not related to teaching.
“We would give a representation to the Chief Minister and leave,” they said.
Accordingly, their representatives were allowed inside the camp office and bring their grievances to the notice of the Chief Minister.
Police heaved a sigh of relief as the teachers left peacefully after having met the Chief Minister.
Schools teachers want the State government to relieve them from
non-teaching work
