Teachers’ delegation meets Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot

With the change in government in the state, the teachers have demanded reduction in time of government schools and non-residential teacher training camps. Rajasthan Primary Secondary Teachers Association’s delegation met chief minister Ashok Gehlot and deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Tuesday and submitted a five-point demand letter. Teacher training camps will start on Wednesday therefore, the teachers have asked the chief minister to issue orders to declare the camp as non-residential.

The previous BJP government increased the time of school by an hour in 2014. Teachers across the state had opposed the increase of the school timing but the government did not reduce it. For the last four years, teachers have been agitating while demanding reducing school time. 

The Congress promised to reduce school time in its election manifesto and so teachers are now reminding the Congress government of its promise. 

Similarly, teachers’ training camps are organised every year in the state. These camps were non-residential during the previous Congress government’s tenure. The BJP government had ordered to conduct residential teacher training camp three years ago and teachers across the state had protested against it. Teachers in different districts of the state boycotted these camps forcing the previous BJP government to take disciplinary action against them.

Now the government has changed in the state and so teachers are demanding that these camps be made non-residential. 

Teachers’ delegation led by Rajasthan Primary Secondary Teachers Association president Shashi Bhushan Sharma and senior vice president Vipin Prakash Sharma met both Gehlot and Pilot on Tuesday. They handed over their five-point demand letter. Sharma said that both CM and Deputy CM listened to them carefully. They then instructed the officers to take immediate action. 

“We have also demanded to eliminate the new pension scheme and implement the one and also reopen 25,000 schools closed by the previous government. Teachers’ training camps will start on Wednesday. Therefore, we want the government to immediately declare these training camps as non-residential,” said Sharma.