Transfers: Grade-iii Teachers Protest Demanding Immediate Transfers | Jaipur News

Jaipur: Grade-III teachers staged a protest at Shaheed Smarak in the city on Thursday demanding immediate opening of transfers among other demands. The transfer of Grade III teachers has been on halt for the past four years in the state, due to which teachers have been conducting regular protests in the state.

Ramesh Chandra, president of Rajasthan Shikshak Sangh (National), the teachers’ group that was protesting, said, “We have tried many ways to remind the government of our problems, such as press conferences, protests, foot marches, etc.”
He added, “Unfortunately, our attempts were met with silence. The authorities have once again assured us that a decision will be made within 15 days, but if they fail to address our concerns within this period, we will stage a bigger protest on the streets across the state.”

The teachers demanded that the reports of the Sawant and Khemraj committee constituted for the resolution of salary anomalies should be made public and implemented immediately and all salary anomalies of all teachers’ cadres should be resolved immediately.
Teachers further said that most of the work in the education department is now being done through online mode, therefore ‘monthly internet allowance and android phones should be given to all the teachers and institution heads of the state similar to other departments.
They also demanded that contractual hirings in the education department must be stopped and those already employed must be given permanent jobs and that too from the day they started working. Teachers said that there are 1.5 lakh teachers’ posts empty in the department.