Part-time teachers for regularisation of jobs

For Daily:31/08/15:Ramanathapuram:Members of the Tamil Nadu part-time teachers federation near the Collectorate in Ramanathapuram on Monday.Photo:L_BALACHANDAR [with report]

More than 150 part-time teachers thronged the Collectorate here on Monday demanding regularisation of job and seeking time-scale of pay.

The teachers said that the State government had recruited 16,549 teachers in 2011 through out the state to take Computer Science classes, drawing, sewing, life sciences and art and culture on part-time basis in schools. Of these, 450 part-teachers were in Dindigul district.

It also fixed a consolidated pay of Rs.7,000 per month. But the government did not regularise their job till date. They appealed to the government for job regularisation before commencement of debate on education policies in the present Assembly session.

All the teachers should be shifted to Department of Education from Sarva Shiksa Abhiyan while regularisation.

Ramanathapuram

Members of Federation of Tamil Nadu Part-time Teachers’ Associations presented a petition to the Collector here on Monday, requesting the government to regularise their services and make them full-time teachers.

As part of the State-wide agitation, More than 240 part-time teachers in the district, including about 100 women, a belonging to Federation of Tamil Nadu Part-time Teachers’ Associations attempted to take out a procession to the Collectorate but police prevented them saying they did not have permission.

A delegation of the forum met Collector K. Nanthakumar and presented the petition.

District association president G. Ramesh said that they were recruited in 2012 under the Centre’s Sarva Siksha Abyiyan (SSA) scheme and since then serving as part-time teachers in Middle, High schools and Higher Secondary Schools.

They were selected after a written examination and interview for a monthly consolidated pay of Rs. 4,000.

This year, the salary was increased to Rs. 7,000 with 75 per cent of the salary borne by the Centre and the balance by the State government, he said.

They worked three days a week and three hours per day in the morning or in the evening teaching the students in seven disciplines such as physical education, drawing, sewing, music, life skills and computers.

As they were recruited during the present regime, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa should solve their problem, he said.