Evaluation suffers as more teachers boycott work

Allahabad: Teachers of government Inter colleges boycotted the evaluation work of class 10 and 12 answer sheets of Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UP Board) across the state on Saturday in protest against transfer policy of state government.
The protest halted the evaluation process as over 40,000 teachers of unaided schools are already abstaining from work in support of their demands.
Government teachers, under the banner Rajkiya Shikshak Sangh, claimed that thousands of LT grade teachers are awaiting their promotion to posts of lecturers or principals for the past 10 years due to faulty promotion policies of the state government. "With assembly elections approaching, the state government has now started filling the vacancies in Mainpuri schools by transferring teachers from other parts of the state. It is unfortunate that the government is thinking only about its core constituencies and not about teachers," said Rajkiya Shikshak Sangh regional general secretary Ravi Bhushan. The evaluators took out a procession and protested at various evaluation centres in support of their demands.
Ravi Bhushan said the education directorate had earlier sought the confidential reports of LT grade teachers teaching in high school from 2005 to 2015 for their promotions either as principals or lecturers at Government Intermediate College (GIC) or Girls' Government Intermediate College (GGIC).
"It has been a year but the process is yet to complete. Promotions of 3,500 are struck for the past many years as the directorate has not initiated the process for clearing their files," said Ravi Bhushan.