Teachers who join duty on January 30 would have to get permission of the School Education Department Secretary, according to a circular issued to Chief Educational Officers of all districts.
Some teachers continued their agitation despite the State government urging them to return to work.
The department had given protesters time till 7 p.m. on Tuesday to return to work.
The posts of all those teachers who do not return to work will be treated as vacant and the details should be submitted to the department secretary, the circular said.
Besides departmental action, teachers who don’t give up their strike will not be allowed to return to work in the same school for fear of public retaliation.
Earlier, the School Education Department authorities said nearly 99% of the teachers had returned to work. Protests were muted after the stringent actions initiated by the State government, they claimed.
In Vellore, the intersection near the Collectorate was abuzz with teachers and striking workers. However, no arrests were made.
Ill-treatment alleged
A representative of The Joint Action Council of Tamil Nadu Teachers’ Organisations and Government Employees’ Organisations (JACTTO-GEO) alleged that many women teachers were “ill-treated in marriage halls, where they were detained even when they wanted to leave the venue.”
Students from Panchayat Union Elementary School in Ammur near Ranipet protested in front of the locked classrooms. A teacher locked the school in Melpatti near Pernambut and parents of the students staged a dharna .
In Madurai, the number of protestors fell from over 15,000 on Monday to a few hundred on Tuesday. In Dindigul 222 people courted arrest, against 3,050 persons on Monday. A majority of school teachers returned to work in southern districts. In Virudhunagar only 8.2% teachers struck work, while in Madurai more than 90% of the teachers returned to work, officials said. In Tiruchi district, 11,424 out of 12,316 teachers in primary, secondary, high and higher secondary schools reported for duty.
Chief Educational Officer M. Ramakrishnan said over 5,000 temporary teachers drawn from B.Ed. colleges, who were deployed to handle classes in government schools in the absence of the regular teachers, had been asked to return to their institutions.
