Three fasting members of the Trained Unemployed Physical Teachers Association (TUPTA) were forcibility lifted by police on Wednesday.
These members were sitting on a fast un to death at Old Raipur bus stand from last nine days in support of their demand for creation of post of Physical education teacher in the Government schools of the State.
The health of these youths was worsening due to the hunger strike. The members of the TUPTA resisted the forcible lifting of these youths but the police overpowered them and shifted Girish Chandra, Sanjay Singh and Suresh Kumar to the coronation hospital.
After the police action four more members including two women candidates sat on the fast. Now Munnu Singh, Bijendra Singh, Vimal Tomar, Sanjay Kumar, Manu Verma and Kavita Kuamri are sitting on the fast un to death.
The President of TUPTA, Sundar Dhoni said that the government is doing everything to break the marathon agitation of the unemployed physical education teachers.
He added that the agitating members are now determined to continue their agitation till the State Government accepts their demands.
The TUPTA is demanding that the State Government should make permanent appointments of physical education teachers in all the primary and middle schools of the state without the restriction of student number.
The other demands of these unemployed physical education teachers are release of recruitment advertisement for 5000 posts, appointments in the upgraded schools under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiya and creation of post of lecturer physical education in the Government Inter Colleges (GIC) of state. On Wednesday the agitation of the association entered 395 day. In the marathon struggle the members of TUPTA have used every method of agitation. They have written letters in blood, scaled the overhead water tanks and undertaken marches to the secretariat, CM’s residence and Vidhan Sabha. They have gheraoed the state ministers, undertaken sanitation drives, taken out candle marches, retorted to hunger strikes, polished shoes in public places and even expressed their frustration by engaging in begging.