Staff Reporter
PUDUCHERRY: The Puducherry Government Directly Recruited Higher Secondary Lecturers’ Association staged a protest on Wednesday to demand creation of additional posts of Vice-Principals and proper implementation of Assured Career Progression (ACP). Secretary of the association K. Ramu said the government had announced the creation of 48 additional Vice-Principal posts in the Assembly in 2006 to enhance the promotion chances of lecturers. But the posts have still not been created, leaving the lecturers with eight per cent chance of being promoted.
“As many as 200 lecturers are working in the same cadre of lecturers for the last 27 years. If the additional posts of Vice-Principals are created, then the chances for promotion will increase,” he said.
The association urged the government for proper implementation of ACP with full monetary benefits for the lecturers. “In the last three years, 14 posts of Vice-Principals in government higher secondary schools remain vacant. We want the government to fill the posts immediately. In addition, the government should evolve a regional transfer policy before executing the inter-regional transfers,” he pointed out. Apart from this, he said lecturers in rural areas should receive an additional 10 per cent as “village allowance.”