Teachers affiliated to Vidarbha Madhyamik Shikshak Sangh staged dharna in front of the office of education officer to press for the demands of secondary and higher secondary teachers and non-teaching staff working in private and local autonomous body schools.
The major demands of the teachers include cancellation of part pension and implement the old pension scheme, cancel the government order of October 23, 2017 regarding service seniority and selection criteria, teachers should be paid the salaries as per the Seventh Pay Commission, pay the teachers, absorb the additional teachers in service and those not absorbed should be paid salaries from their original school, amend the order of January 28, 2019 proposed for non-teaching staff, librarians, pay the outstanding salaries from January 1, 2006 to November 30, 2010 working in the aided NMC schools and several other demands.
The agitating teachers warned to launched an intensified agitation if their demands are not fulfilled at the earliest.
