Contractual teachers across Uttar Pradesh on Monday sought the President and Prime Minister’s permission for euthanasia as they held protest against Allahabad High Court’s order that declared the State Government’s move to regularise them, illegal.
later, a three member delegation of contractual teachers met Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani over the issue.
In Sambhal, ‘Shiksha Mitras’ boycotted their duties and locked primary schools. They gave a memorandum, addressed to Pranab Mukherjee, District Magistrate seeking permission for euthanasia stating that after the High Court’s order they did not want to live as their “careers were at stake”.
The protest was held under banner of UP Siksham Mitra Sangh and Siksham Mitra Welfare sangh. In Gonda district, Siksha Mitra held a sit-in in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue and did not perform their duties.
They also wrote to PM Narendra Modi to clear hurdles in their regularisation or to give them permission for euthanasia, UP Siksha Mitra Sangh’s divisional President, Ramlal Sahu said. He further said that they would continue to boycott their work tomorrow also, and added that they had sent 500 letters to PM in this regard.
Similar, protest were also held in various districts including, lucknow, Sitapur, Deoria.
Meanwhile, a group of contractual teachers held a protest outside Ram Manohar lohia law University where a meeting between Smriti Irani and education ministers of four states was being held.
UP’s basic education minister, Ram Govind Chaudhary and secondary education minister, Mehboob Ali also raised the issue before the HRD Minister, sources said.
A three-member delegation of Shiksha Mitras met Irani and she assured them to look into the matter, the regional patron of UP Prathmik Siksha Mitra Association Shiv Kumar
Shukla said.