Patna:
In Bihar, the education department on Monday withdrew the revised holiday calendar for schools in less than a week. Diwali, Durga Puja and Chhath Puja holidays were cut in the revised calendar, which led the government to face criticism. The number of festive holidays was reduced from 23 to 11 in this revised school holiday calendar of the Education Department. Several teachers’ unions in Bihar have decided to launch a state-wide agitation from September 5 against various measures taken by the education department, including the cancellation of leave.
Also read this
Even after withdrawing the revised calendar of holidays, teachers’ unions on Monday said that their strike call from September 5 is still in place. TET Primary Teachers Union convener Raju Singh told PTI that the government has withdrawn the revised calendar, “Our call to start agitation from September 5 against some recent decisions by the education department is still valid.” Withdrawal of revised holiday calendar was one of our many demands. We are also demanding immediate withdrawal of all departmental action including suspension against many teachers. We are also demanding regularization of the teachers who are working on contract.
“The department has withdrawn the revised holiday calendar with immediate effect, hence the old holiday calendar will remain in force,” the education department said in a circular issued on Monday evening. have decided to oppose the recent decisions of All teachers of 75,309 government schools in the state will tie black ribbons in protest on September 5 (Teacher’s Day). They will wear black ribbons in their schools all day on September 5 and participate in all academic activities. Apart from this, on September 9, teachers will burn effigies of Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister outside block offices across the state.
Teachers Sangh Bihar president Keshav Kumar told PTI-Bhasha that the decision to launch a protest against the department’s latest move was taken at a recent meeting of office bearers of 15 teachers unions. Keshav said, “We (teachers) work for 252 days in a year while the target set by the education department is only 220 days. Despite knowing the fact, the department reduced the leave of the teachers. This is absolutely not acceptable. On the other hand, teachers who raised their voices against the department’s decision were either suspended or asked for an explanation. He said, “It seems that Education Department Additional Chief Secretary K K Pathak, who is issuing orders almost every day, does not know the reality.”
Also Read-
“I will say this again and again..”: DMK leader Udhayanidhi on controversial statement on ‘Sanatana Dharma’
Explainer: Before the G-20 Summit, know when and how this organization was formed, what is its function?
(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by the NDTV team and is published directly from the syndicate feed.)