Telangana Teachers’ Panel To Protest Over Promotions, Pensions
The Upadhyaya Sanghala Porata Committee has announced a phased agitation, including a maha dharna in Hyderabad on August 23, demanding that the Telangana government address unresolved issues like teacher promotions, transfers, vacant posts and service rules.
Hyderabad: The Upadhyaya Sanghala Porata Committee (USPC) has announced a phased agitation to voice concerns over the government’s inaction on pending issues in the education sector. Teachers will submit memorandums to the Chief Minister on July 23 and 24 through local tahsildars, hold district-level dharnas on August 1 and gather in Hyderabad for a statewide maha dharna on August 23.
The committee members met at the Telangana State United Teachers’ Federation (TSUTF) office and the committee accused the government of displaying prolonged delay despite being in power for 19 months. They said the promises made in the manifesto remain unfulfilled and core teacher-related matters have been ignored.
The teachers’ collective has demanded that the schedule for promotions and transfers be released immediately and the entire process concluded before the end of this month. They said the practice of lobbying-based deputations should be scrapped altogether. The existing rationalisation Government Order (GO) must be revised, they added and long-pending bills, including those concerning pensions, cleared without delay.
The list of demands includes sanctioning district educational officer (DEO) posts in new districts, deputy EOs in each revenue division, mandal educational officers (MEOs) in new mandals and the creation of unified service rules for teachers. Vacant posts, they said, must be filled without further bureaucratic hold-ups. The committee also asked for the immediate approval of 5,571 primary school headmaster posts and said that all SG teachers holding DEd or BEd degrees should be eligible for these promotions.
Members also asked the government to cancel GOs 2, 3, 9 and 10 in light of the completed upgradation of Pandit and PET roles and to enforce GOs 11 and 12 for promotions instead. They insisted the teacher rationalization guidelines need a revision. Political and unofficial lobbying that resulted in unfair deputations across districts should be reversed, they said.
