Primary school-teachers to gherao Parliament on April 4

* Demand hike in wages, revision of pension scheme
The Haryana Government Primary Teachers’ Union has decided to intensify its agitation and gherao Parliament and hold a rally at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on April 4 in support of their long pending demands. 

Union general secretary Deepak Goswami said a massive rally would be organised in Rohtak this month in support of their demands. He said they would not accept privatisation of primary education at any cost. He said the union had prevented the government from handing over some schools to Bharti Airtel in 2008 and would not let the government succeed in future also.

Alleging that the "deaf and dumb" government had not paid any heed to their demands, he said their demands included reverting back to old pension scheme, implementation of the RTE in right earnest, implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission with minimum pay of Rs 16, 290 and putting an end to the proposal of privatisation of primary education.

The union demanded creation of post of head teacher in every school irrespective of the number of students and opening of promotion avenues by creating posts of centre head teacher on the pattern of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab.

Goswami also demanded that in order to implement the Right to Education (RTE) in right earnest, the teacher-pupil ratio should be reduced to 1:30 and students up to Class V should be taught only by primary teachers and more posts should be created after rationalisation of the existing staff.

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