MADURAI: A massive ‘Teachers Demands Conference’ is being organized in Madurai on 1st October 2023 by ‘Makkal Kalvi Kootiyakkam’ to highlight the plight of teachers who are working for a meagre pitiable monthly salary in self-financing colleges, self-financing courses departments in aided colleges and in private schools in Tamil Nadu.
This conference will take place at Justice Krishna Iyer Hall in K.K.Nagar (near Apollo Hospital) in Madurai, and the problems of teachers in arts and science colleges, polytechnic colleges, private engineering colleges, law colleges etc and in private schools will be highlighted in the conference.
The problems of teachers who are working with low wages and paid very less monthly salary for Self-Financing colleges and SF courses in the State despite having good qualification as per UGC norms will be raised in this conference in Madurai in order to stop exploitation of teachers who are working in Self-Financed educational institutions where teachers are being subjected to exploitation by paying them very low wages.
“Our demand to the State government and to all education well-wishers in Tamil Nadu is to raise their voice for making the temporary jobs as permanent for those guest lecturers, temporary faculty who are working in colleges in Tamil Nadu. More than 7,000 ‘Guest’ lecturers in government colleges and several thousands in aided colleges’ SF stream are working with a salary of just about Rs.20,000 per month. But what is the salary being received by permanent teachers who are getting UGC salary of more than Rs.One Lakh? Through this conference, we are appealing and demanding to the Tamil Nadu State Government to appoint permanent college teachers. The same should happen in private schools also where exorbitant fees is collected from parents but teachers are paid very less salary, treating teachers as slaves without any rights or respect. The Madurai conference on 1st October 2023 will raise the voice because more than 40 associations and organisations who are working for education issues and teachers’ demands are participating in this conference. This conference is going to become a massive movement,” Prof.Dr.R.Murali, State coordinator of ‘Makkal Kalvi Kootiyakkam’, has said while speaking to reporters at a press meet held in Madurai on September 29th 2023.
Among those who spoke on the problems faced by teachers working in Self-Financed streams in colleges and schools at today’s press meet in Madurai include Prof.A.Srinivasan of ‘Save MKU Coalition’, Dr.N.Periathambi, secretary of Tamil Nadu Retired College Teachers Association- Madurai district and MUTA Vijayakumar besides A.Jeganathan, EC Member of ‘Makkal Kalvi Kootiyakkam’, Mr.Mathivanan of CPI-ML and public interest activist Lionel Antony Raj.
