Striking teachers to march to Bangalore

DHARWAD: The teachers of unaided private Kannada medium schools and pre-university colleges, who have been staging an indefinite hunger strike for the past 59 days in Dharwad demanding release of salary grants, will take out a protest march to Bangalore.
MLC and former minister for primary and secondary education Basavaraj Horatti will lead the march which will start from Dharwad on February 22.
Horatti said the chief minister who had promised to come out with a solution for the issue on the floor of the House on February 8 could not do so as the entire proceedings were marred by the porngate episode.
In a letter to chief minister D V Sadanand Gowda, Horatti urged the CM to fulfill the commitment made by the government by issuing orders for the release of funds to the employees of unaided schools which were eligible for grant-in-aid facility.
Meanwhile chairman of Karnatak legislative council D H Shankar Murthy has also written to the chief minister to immediately withdraw the ban on release of funds.