Nagpur: Vidarbha Junior College Teachers’ Associations (VJCTA) on Friday protested outside the divisional education board office to reiterate the statewide call to boycott the HSC (Std XII) evaluation and press for their pending demands.
With around 1.6 lakh students appearing for HSC in Nagpur division (six districts), the answersheets are piling up fast.The board exams which started on Wednesday, have still not had a single answersheet evaluated yet.
There are multiple demands of VJCTA which include implementation of the old pension scheme, hiring for vacant posts, redefining pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) which ultimately determines the number of staff to be hired, etc.
Ashok Gavhankar, generary secretary of VJCTA, said, “This is entirely the state govt’s fault because they did not fulfill their promises. Last year in February, the govt told us that our demands will be looked into in a concrete manner.”
He said that nothing happened for a month or two after that meeting. “Then the govt said that before the monsoon session of the state legislature they will hold a meeting with us. That too did not happen,” said Gavhankar.
VJCTA then organized a protest rally in December during the winter session at Nagpur. Gavhankar said, “Again we were promised that our demands are being looked into and very soon we shall be called for a meeting.”
Teachers say that almost a year after the February 2023 meeting, nothing had been done. “We need them to make their decisions official through a GR. Just agreeing to our demands during a closed door meeting has no legal value,” said Gavhankar.
On February 12, the association yet again sent a letter to the govt reminding it of the pending issues.
“The decision to boycott evaluation of answersheets will definitely impact students but it is all the govt’s fault. They are to blame because we were forced to take this step after exhausting all avenues of seeking a response from the govt,” said Gavhankar.
While such boycotts do happen annually, they get called off after govt gives assurances over certain demands. But this being an election year, teachers are hoping that the assurances by the govt will culminate into actual policy changes.
With around 1.6 lakh students appearing for HSC in Nagpur division (six districts), the answersheets are piling up fast.The board exams which started on Wednesday, have still not had a single answersheet evaluated yet.
There are multiple demands of VJCTA which include implementation of the old pension scheme, hiring for vacant posts, redefining pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) which ultimately determines the number of staff to be hired, etc.
Ashok Gavhankar, generary secretary of VJCTA, said, “This is entirely the state govt’s fault because they did not fulfill their promises. Last year in February, the govt told us that our demands will be looked into in a concrete manner.”
He said that nothing happened for a month or two after that meeting. “Then the govt said that before the monsoon session of the state legislature they will hold a meeting with us. That too did not happen,” said Gavhankar.
VJCTA then organized a protest rally in December during the winter session at Nagpur. Gavhankar said, “Again we were promised that our demands are being looked into and very soon we shall be called for a meeting.”
Teachers say that almost a year after the February 2023 meeting, nothing had been done. “We need them to make their decisions official through a GR. Just agreeing to our demands during a closed door meeting has no legal value,” said Gavhankar.
On February 12, the association yet again sent a letter to the govt reminding it of the pending issues.
“The decision to boycott evaluation of answersheets will definitely impact students but it is all the govt’s fault. They are to blame because we were forced to take this step after exhausting all avenues of seeking a response from the govt,” said Gavhankar.
While such boycotts do happen annually, they get called off after govt gives assurances over certain demands. But this being an election year, teachers are hoping that the assurances by the govt will culminate into actual policy changes.
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