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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'Warm and engaging atmosphere reigned', Shashi Tharoor on Putin banquet
New Delhi (PTI): Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who on Friday attended a banquet for Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, on Saturday described the atmosphere there as "warm" and "engaging", and said he enjoyed his conversations with many of the attendees.
Tharoo’s remarks came a day after President Droupadi Murmu hosted a banquet for the visiting Russian president at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here.
“Attended the @rashtrapatibhvn banquet for President Putin last night. A warm and engaging atmosphere reigned. Enjoyed my conversations with many of the attendees, especially my dining companions from the Russian delegation!" Tharoor said in a social media post.
Murmu, while welcoming President Putin and his delegation at the banquet, had said that his visit marked an important milestone -- the 25th anniversary of the India-Russia strategic partnership, which was established in October 2000 during his first visit to the country as president.
Murmu also appreciated Putin's support and personal commitment to the India-Russia special and privileged strategic partnership.
The Congress on Friday said that the leaders of the opposition, Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, were not invited to the banquet, and took a swipe at Tharoor for accepting the invite.
The party’s media and publicity department head, Pawan Khera, accused the government of breaking protocols daily and not believing in democratic principles.
“There is no invite to both the LoPs, Mr (Mallikarjun) Kharge and Mr (Rahul) Gandhi. This comes as a surprise, but I don't think we should be surprised. This government is known to be breaching all protocols. What else to say, ask the government,” Khera said on Friday.
Asked about Tharoor accepting the invite for the banquet, Khera said, "Ask Mr Tharoor. All of us who are in the party, if our leaders don't get invited and we get invited, we need to question our own conscience and listen to our conscience. Politics has been played in inviting or not inviting people, which in itself is questionable, and those who accept such an invite are also questionable."
“We would have listened to our voice of conscience,” he added.
Earlier, Tharoor had said that there was a time when the chairman of the external affairs committee was routinely invited, but that practice seems to have stopped some years ago.
On Thursday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that the government tells visiting foreign dignitaries not to meet the leader of opposition due to its "insecurity".
His remarks came hours ahead of Putin's two-day visit to India.
