Irked by the long delay in implementing the recommendations of VII Pay Commission, the university and college teachers of Uttarakhand have decided to start an agitation.
The Federation of Uttaranchal University and College Teachers Association (FUUCTA) has declared that the teachers would stage dharnas in their respective colleges and wear black arm bands on their sleeves as a mark of protest from October 4.
The general secretary FUUCTA who is also the president of DAV PG College teachers association, U S Rana said that teachers would hold protest meetings from 12.30 PM to 1.30 PM on October 4, 5 and 6. The future course of the agitation would be decided on October 8, he added.
Rana informed that a combined delegation of FUUCTA, Garhwal University Teachers Association (GRUTA) and teacher associations of Kumaon University, GB Pant Agriculture University, Doon University, Open University and Sanskrit University had met the minister of state for higher education Dhan Singh Rawat on September 22. He said that Rawat had assured during the meeting that the required Government Order (GO) for the VII Pay Commission to the university and college teachers of the state would be issued before September 30. “It is unfortunate that the state government is still sitting on the matter and the college and the university teachers are being deprived of their dues,” Rana said.