How appropriate is timing for teachers’ strike?
Every year, after the SSLC and PUC exam timetables are out, another declaration comes out. And that would be about the teachers threatening to boycott the valuation. Every year teachers keep threatening the government that they would boycott PUC valuation if their demands are not met.
As a result of this protest that happens sometimes there are occasions where the results have been delayed and the students have had to face dire consequences because of this. This year too teachers are using the same threat against the government trying to blackmail the system.
They are holding students to ransom while trying to get the government to listen and fulfill their demands. In this tug of war between teachers and government, students will again face an uncertain future as far as their results are concerned.
Teachers have all the rights to hold a protest to get the government to listen to them. Teachers are the architects of the society. Future of a country depends on the teachers. Hence it is not a crime for teachers to demand their rights.
Government has to respond to their demands immediately. They have to get down to demonstrating the protest because the government has failed to act on its promises given to them in past incidents. Some of the main demands are about changed summer holiday schedule cancellation, correction of wage disparity and speeding up the promotions that have been delayed.
But the modus-operandi they using to fulfill their demands is objectionable. This is like resting the rifle on students’ shoulders to take a shot at the government.
This entire act as an impending thread that they would do in the future of the students if the government doesn't listen to them.
Teachers’ collectives say the government will not respond to them if they take up protest during other occasions.
And there are some who defend this decision saying when other organisations wage protest even the public are put to inconvenience during demonstrations and roadblocks, and all those have some level of difficulty and discomfort to others, and that is a natural phenomenon on such occasions.
Teachers are not like other professionals. Soldiers, doctors, police and teachers have very specific tasks.
What happens if soldiers decide to go on strike with their demands to be fulfilled when a war has been declared?
In all the categories teachers have the most superior space because they are the ones who shape the future and dreams of soldiers, doctors and all other professionals.
Since their life is worth emulating they have to think many a times before getting down to protest against the government.
How appropriate is it to do in the life and future of students for the fault of the government?
The very teachers who would have shaped the future of the students all through the year with great hard work, would have ruined their the future by such a irresponsible act at the end of the year.
Would it not be painful for the students to know that their future have to go through this hardship because of their own teachers? How would the teachers then says there on students?
This does not mean that teachers should not protest for their demands. They have to find alternate routes to get their demands fulfilled by the government.
they have to get the support of other organisations to bring pressure on the government. Teachers are blessed with knowledge, so nobody has to teach them how to get the government to listen to their demands and fulfill their mutual discussions and due considerations.
At the same time mobile one considers the facilities and benefits given to teaching profession they are not too bad after all, as against other professions.
But if one is to take up a survey of the standard of teachers in this state many shocking truths will come out from that.
The lack of expertise, knowledge, aptitude, talent and passion for the profession would be visibly obvious across the board.
Teachers who do justice to their profession are very very rare. This is one of the main reasons why our standard of education has fallen abysmally low.
The contribution of undeserving teachers very huge in Government schools closing down one after another.
This is the right time to even introspect and see what contribution they have made to the profession they got into.
There is responsibility of the government as well as far as the teachers the concerned.
The government that responds to the demands of drivers and doctors as soon as possible has always been very careless about the demands of teachers.
It seems to think ESMA can be invoked to shut the voices of teachers. This attitude of the government may have also enraged the teachers. After having a short some action and fulfillment of demands when teachers declared the protest during valuation time the government wakes up only the next time around when the teachers declared the protest or threaten to boycott revaluation process, and this would be one year apart.
The government has to make an honest effort to fulfill all the promises it made to teachers during the last protest. Government should not try to silence the teachers by invoking ESMA. Instead they should immediately coming on meeting and listen to the demands of the teachers.
If this is not done, students will suffer as a result of this never ending tug of war between teachers and government.
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LoP Ashoka targets CM govt over corruption, says being 'shameless' in public life not forgivable
Bengaluru (PTI): Targeting Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the Congress government in Karnataka on corruption, BJP leader R Ashoka on Friday said, being foolish was forgivable, but being "shameless" in public life was not.
The Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly claimed that in just 30 months of its tenure, the Congress administration has broken every previous record on corruption-related controversies.
He was responding to Siddaramaiah's post on 'X' on Thursday hitting back at the BJP, stating that Upa Lokayukta Justice Veerappa's claims of "63 per cent corruption" were based on his report in November 2019, when BJP's B S Yediyurappa was the CM.
"But Ashoka, without understanding the Upa Lokayukta's statement properly, has ended up tying the BJP's own bells of sins onto our heads and has effectively shot himself in the foot," the CM had said, as he accused Ashoka of foolishness for trying to twist Veerappa's statement to target the current government.
Responding, Ashoka said, "it is one thing to be called foolish in politics, that can be forgiven."
"But in public life, especially in the Chief Minister's chair, one must never become shameless," Ashoka posted on 'X' on Friday addressing Siddaramaiah.
Noting that the CM himself had admitted on the floor of the Assembly that a Rs 87 crore scam took place in the Valmiki Development Corporation, he said that when a CM acknowledges such a massive irregularity inside the floor of the House, the natural expectation is immediate action and accountability.
"But instead of taking responsibility, you continue in office as if nothing has happened. What should the people of Karnataka call this, if not sheer shamelessness," he asked.
Pointing out that the CM's Economic Advisor and senior Congress MLA Basavaraja Rayareddy had publicly stated that under Congress rule, Karnataka has become No.1 in corruption, Ashoka said, "Yet, you still cling to the Chief Minister's chair without a moment of introspection. What should the people of Karnataka call this, if not sheer shamelessness."
Senior Congress MLA C R Patil had exposed the "money for House" racket in the Housing Department and even warned that the government would collapse if the details he has were made public, Ashoka said.
"Despite such serious allegations from within your own party (Congress), you neither initiated an inquiry nor acted against the concerned minister. What should the people of Karnataka call this, if not sheer shamelessness," Ashoka asked the CM.
Highlighting the "40 percent commission" allegation Congress made against the previous BJP government, the opposition leader said, the commission that the Siddaramaiah government appointed concluded that the accusation was baseless.
"After your own panel demolished your own claim, what moral right do you have to continue repeating that allegation. What should the people of Karnataka call this, if not sheer shamelessness," he asked.
For the last two and a half years, Karnataka has been 'drowning' in corruption, scandals, irregularities and allegations across departments. Ashoka said, "If I begin listing every case that emerged under your government, even 24 hours would not be enough."
"And the most tragic aspect of your administration is this: the unbearable pressure, corruption demands and administrative harassment under your government pushed several officers and contractors into extreme distress - including the suicide of Chandrasekharan which exposed the Valmiki Development Corporation scam - a sign of how deeply broken the system has become under your watch," he said.
Instead of fixing this hopeless environment, the government has tried to bury every complaint and silence every voice, he charged.
"Being foolish is forgivable, but being shameless in public life is definitely not."
"When your own ministers admit scams, when your own advisors certify Karnataka as No.1 in corruption, and when your own MLAs expose rackets inside your departments - clinging to power without accountability is not leadership. It is shamelessness in its purest form." PTI KSU
Earlier on Thursday Ashoka had demanded that the corruption case and allegations in the state against the Congress government be handed over to a CBI investigation, citing a reported statement by Upalokaykta Justice Veerappa alleging "63 per cent corruption", following which Siddaramaiah hit back at the BJP leader.
