Mayiladuthurai: In 15,000 personal matriculation colleges, lecturers and workers are being paid half of their salaries curbing the bodily attendance of college staff to 50 per cent. As a outcome, lecturers are pressured to take up work on day by day wages to save lots of their households go hungry, mentioned Muralitharan, the Tamil Nadu Matriculation School Teachers’ Association Coordinator.
The Teachers’ Association has demanded that the Tamil Nadu authorities ought to present the corona aid funds to matriculation college lecturers who’ve misplaced their livelihoods as a result of closure of colleges.
The Association counseling assembly was held at Mayiladuthurai. The assembly mentioned the urging of the Tamil Nadu authorities to help the lecturers who’ve misplaced their jobs as a result of closure of colleges.
Speaking to reporters, Muralitharan, mentioned, “The Tamil Nadu government has closed all schools since March 2020 due to the corona epidemic. In 15 thousand private matriculation schools, teachers and officers were paid half of the salary, reducing staff strength to 50 percent. Thus the teachers are going for daily wages to provide food to their families.
Following this, the lives of teachers who scored 98% in 10th and 12th classes, have drastically changed. The last AIADMK government did not care about private matriculation school teachers. Many private school teachers have lost their jobs and have no way to support their families as schools have been closed this year by the second wave of coronavirus impact. A private school teacher in Cuddalore has committed suicide after failing to pay home rent.
The Tamil Nadu Matriculation School Teachers’ Association has demanded that the Tamil Nadu government provide corona relief funds to the teachers who have lost their livelihoods due to the closure of schools.
Several lakh teachers are working in 15 thousand private schools in Tamil Nadu. They have been living in poverty for a year without salary, private school teachers should be paid half of their salary or the government should provide them minimum financial assistance of Rs 10,000 to live a decent life. The working-age limit that the AIADMK government reduced from 57 to 40 should be repealed and should bring back to 57. One lakh successful people are working in private schools. They should be recruited in vacant government schools,” he mentioned.
He additional mentioned, “Action ought to be taken towards these concerned in irregularities within the number of civil servants and TET within the AIADMK regime and {that a} petition ought to be despatched to the Chief Minister and the Minister of Education and officers concerning the demand and if the Tamil Nadu authorities fails to satisfy our authentic calls for, we’ll interact in a sequence of struggles,’’ he emphasised.
