The Maharashtra State Permanent Unaided School Kruti Samiti protested by marching from Sevagram to Nagpur in December 2015 to get aid for the unaided schools that were eligible for financial assistance from the government. While some of the unaided schools got approval from the state government for aid, this remained only on paper and the financial assistance did not reach the schools, allege the samiti members.
After junior college teachers protested with their non-cooperation during the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) board examination, unaided school teachers are now threatening to boycott the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination if their demands are not met by the state government.
The Maharashtra State Permanent Unaided School Kruti Samiti protested by marching from Sevagram to Nagpur in December 2015 to get aid for the unaided schools that were eligible for financial assistance from the government. While some of the unaided schools got approval from the state government for aid, this remained only on paper and the financial assistance did not reach the schools, allege the samiti members.
On Friday, the samiti again started a protest, this time from Azad Maidan, against the same issue of promised government aid not reaching the 1,343 government schools eligible for aid, which is depriving many teachers of their salaries. The samiti members claimed that, recently, a 35-year-old teacher who was working without being paid a salary for 10 years died of a heart attack in Hingoli zilla.
Around 4,000 teachers from unaided schools from across the state — 600 of them from Mumbai — participated in the protest at Azad Maidan. The Maharashtra Principal Association is also supporting this protest.
Prashant Redij, a spokesperson of the samiti from the Mumbai region, said: "More than 25,000 unaided school teachers from across the state participated in the protest by marching from Sevagram to Nagpur during the winter session. The education minister had promised the samiti that the government would provide financial assistance to those unaided schools that have got approval for aid. Unfortunately, the eligible unaided schools are still waiting for the aid from the government. If funds are not allotted for our unaided schools in the upcoming state budget, the samiti will this time boycott the SSC board examination, which may disturb the process of paper correction. We have also written a letter stating this to the Mumbai Divisional Board office to apprise them of the matter."
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