Protesting over non-implementation of the VII Pay Commission, the teachers of SMJN PG College here worked with black ribbons around their arms on Thursday. In response to the call given by the Federation of Uttaranchal University and College Teachers Association (FUCTA), the teachers took the classes while sporting the bands as mark of protest.
Speaking to The Pioneer, Manmohan Gupta, one of the protesting teachers, said, “In most of the states, benefit of the VII Pay Commission is being given to the teachers. But unfortunately in Uttarakhand, it has not been implemented in the post-graduate colleges. The teachers are naturally angry at this.”
He, further, said that the teachers would take classes while wearing the black bands on their arms for the next three days as a mark of protest.
Several teachers, including the principal of the college S K Batra, Naresh Kumar Garg, Tehveer Singh Tomar, Saraswati Pathak, Nalini Jain, Jagdeesh Chand Arya, Vinay Thapliyal and Sushma Nayal participated in the protest by wearing black bands on their arms on the day.