The Nair Service Society (NSS), one of the largest corporate managements in the aided schools sector, has criticised the government’s move to approach the court in the teachers’ bank issue.
In a statement issued here on Friday, NSS general secretary G. Sukumaran Nair said this was against the agreement reached between government representatives and aided sector managements. He said he had expressed his strong protest to the Chief Minister and the Ministers concerned.
He said a discussion was held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on the teachers’ bank scheme and ascertaining the prospective posts in the aided schools. In addition to representatives of the managements, Ministers P.K Kunhalikutty, P.K. Abdul Rabb, K.M. Mani, Ramesh Chennithala and K.C. Joseph were present at the meeting held on March 9 at the official residence of Mr. Mani. A consensus was reached in that meeting that protection of all employees, fixation of teacher-student ratio on the basis of the Right to Education Act, and annulment of the provision that appointments could be made only after government notification of the vacancies, the three major demands of the managements, could be implemented without incurring additional expense to the exchequer, Mr. Nair said.
According to him, an assurance was given by the Chief Minister that decisions on the basis of the consensus would be taken in the next Cabinet meeting. However, the move to take up the issue with the courts was a breach of the agreement.
