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September 13, 2003, Chandigarh, India
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Teachers
to protest transfer of appointment powers Sonepat, September 12 In the first phase of their agitation, the teachers will observe chain hunger strike, sit on dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office and hand over a memorandum of their demands to the DC. Giving details of the stir, general secretary Jagdish Rathi and treasurer Balraj Dahiya of the district unit of the sangh today said that the hunger strike would begin on September 15. Every day five teachers will sit on dharna. And for maximum participation of the teachers, they have been visiting the schools for the last many days. They pointed out that if the power of appointment of the primary schoolteachers by the Zila Parishad was not withdrawn, it would encourage nepotism and politicise the appointments. Moreover, the appointment would be influenced by the vested interests, biased motive and political affiliations, they remarked. Other demands in the memorandum will include formation of the policy of rationalisation with the consent of the sangh; regularisation of the ad hoc teachers; stop taking unacademic work from the teachers; removal of pay anomalies; reintroduction of the examination system of the drawing and physical education subjects; giving pay scale of Rs 75-12,000 to the headmasters of the high schools and lecturers of the senior secondary schools and issuing promotion list twice a year. They pointed out that these had been the longstanding demands of the sangh and on a number of occasions, the Chief Minister had also announced to consider their demands sympathetically. |
Meerut varsity
to rein in western couture Meerut, September 12 It has decided to start a campaign to save the old traditional values. It has constituted a “Literary and Cultural Council” on the university campus and directed its affiliated colleges to immediately constitute such a body to instil Indian ethos in their students. A university ‘Kulgeet’ (song of university) is also being penned, and it will be must for every student to remember and sing it. The university has also directed all its colleges to prepare its flags and keep them ready by October 30. |
Ghani Khan asked to file revised petition New Delhi, September 12 A Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice BC Patel and Justice AK Sikri, refused to interfere with the single judge’s July 13 order and asked the petitioner to first rectify some technical defects in the petition pointed out by the court, before it could hear his petition challenging the earlier order. In his appeal, Chaudhary sought to restrain the authorities from disconnecting electricity and water to the residence while the matter was being heard in court. Chaudhary had disputed and not accepted the meter readings and the billing thereof. |
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