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Over 1,000 striking teachers arrested in
Chhattisgarh
Monday November 07, 2011 05:55:48 PM,
IANS
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Raipur:
Over 1,000 contract teachers in Chhattisgarh, who have been
striking work since Nov 1 for a better salary package, were
arrested Monday as the state government imposed the Essential
Services Maintenance Act (ESMA).
The teachers are also demanding the merger of their posts with
regular teachers cadres.
The state government, however, rejected the two core demands of
merger and salary hikes and asked authorities to put the
protesters in jail and also begin moves to suspend them.
"This is a pressure tactic. The government will not bow down
before their (teachers) unnecessary demands. If they will not
suspend agitation in a day or two, I will go for a fresh
recruitment drive in place of striking teachers," Chief Minister
Raman Singh told reporters.
The arrested teachers have been kept at the Raipur central jail
and other sub-jails in Raipur district. Policemen have also been
deployed at main roads leading into capital Raipur in a bid to
arrest teachers, who are reaching here to join the strike at the
main protest venue in Budha Talab area.
The opposition Congress criticised the BJP government for "putting
teachers in jail just for raising their demand through democratic
ways".
Nandkumar Patel, state Congress president, told reporters that the
state government had earlier agreed to their all demands and was
now putting them in jail when asked to honour the commitment.
There are roughly 200,000 contract teachers in the state placed in
different honorarium slabs ranging between Rs.6,000 and Rs.9,000 a
month.
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