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Teachers? bodies asked to submit proposals
ALL INDIA Secondary Teachers? Federation has asked the teachers? bodies to submit their suggestions regarding the pay scale and other educational matters to the federation office, New Delhi, by December 15. Later, the federation will submit its reports to the Pay Commission on December 30.
ALL INDIA Secondary Teachers’ Federation has asked the teachers’ bodies to submit their suggestions regarding the pay scale and other educational matters to the federation office, New Delhi, by December 15. Later, the federation will submit its reports to the Pay Commission on December 30.
Giving this information, national secretary Bajrangi Singh said the federation would recommend implementation of uniform curriculum and pay scale across the country. Singh said it was the primary duty of the Union government to bear all the expenses related to education in the country. A Higher Secondary Education Commission should be established on the similar pattern of University Grants Commission, he said. Suggestions like scrapping of old pension scheme , removal of discrepancies in the Fifth Pay Commission recommendations, inclusion of teachers’ representatives in Central Education Advisory Board etc. would be made by the federation. He appealed to the teachers bodies to submit the suggestions at the earliest.
Orientation programme: Vicechancellor of SRB University, Chitrakoot, Prof KB Pandey, said that orientation programme launched by the University Grants Commission for teachers had become popular among the teachers due to the contents of the programme. He was speaking at the inaugural function of the 79th orientation programme organized by the UGC and Academic Staff College of Allahabad University, on Monday.
He said that the orientation programmes helped in strengthening teaching qualities.
Special Guest and AU registrar Firdous A Wani also spoke on the occasion.
Earlier the programme started with garlanding of the statue of Goddess Saraswati. ASC Director Prof Pratima Gaur welcomed the guests while course co-ordinator Dr Vimla Vyas conducted the proceedings.
Dr Vyas said that around 30 participants from different states were participating in the one-month programme and eminent resource persons including, member, Non-Conventional Energy Sources and professor of Economics at Delhi University Prof Ravi S Srivastava, director CCRYN, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Prof BTC Murthy, director Institute of Rural Management Prof VP Tripathi, Prof Rajveer Sharma from Delhi University, Prof KP Pandey, Prof Abha Awasthi and Prof KP Pandey and many others would deliver lectures during the programme.
