20-05-2025
Teachers protest deferred after School Education Department agrees to meet some of their key demands
Leaders of the Andhra Pradesh Teachers Joint Action Committee (JAC) on Tuesday said that they had temporarily deferred their proposed protest after the School Education Department officials agreed to meet some of their key demands.
In a statement, the JAC State president G. Hrudaya Raju and general secretary S. Chiranjeevi said that the talks held with the department officials were successful as they agreed to implement transfers of Secondary Grade Teachers (SGTs) in manual mode, to create a second section in High Schools where student strength exceeded 49, sanction a second post in Foundation Schools where student strength exceeded 20, and to run the primary sections currently managed within High Schools as separate entities.
They said that the officials had also agreed to adjust academic instructors or surplus teachers for subjects concerned in case of increased workload, not to include the posts of teachers who were on study leave and were scheduled to return by August, 2025, as vacant in the transfer schedule, and no blocking of posts in the current transfer cycle.
They said that their demand for promotions to 1,382 Primary School Headmasters (PSHM) was granted and also a grant of seven extra points in transfers to teachers who had undergone re-apportionment twice in the past.
The JAC leaders said that they were assured that a committee would be formed in June to resolve issues related to common service rules, and that a decision on mutual transfers between Mandal Education Officers (MEOs) and headmasters would be taken up after the current cycle of transfers.
They said that the officials had informed they would take a final decision on their demand for parallel medium (language of instruction) after discussing it with the Minister of Human Resource Development Nara Lokesh.
