Differently-abled teachers call off protest after two days

School Education department promises to look into demands

Art teachers with disabilities gave up their protest on the second day after officials of the School Education department promised to look into their demands.

Members of the Tamil Nadu Association for the Rights of All Types of Differently Abled and Caregivers (TARATDAC) started their protest on Monday at the DPI campus. They demanded that persons with disabilities working on consolidated pay scale for more than two years be brought under regular pay scale and made permanent employees.

On Tuesday, officials of the School Education department held talks with the protesters and assured them that their demands would be looked into. Following the talks, the teachers called off the agitation.

Submit representation

Later, TARATDAC members submitted a representation to the School Education department Secretary Pradeep Yadav.

The members said that despite a G.O. issued in 2008 stating that all teachers who worked for over two years had to be made permanent, nearly 150 art teachers with disabilities were still in temporary posts.

“The department has told us that they will look into the implementation of the G.O.,” said S. Namburajan, State general secretary of the association.