Aided school teachers stage demo demanding extension of all welfare schemes to their students too

The Committee for Salvaging Rights of Minorities and Non-Minorities Government-aided Schools organised a massive demonstration in front of the Chief Educational Officer’s Office at Kokkirakulam here on Wednesday, demanding the extension of all welfare measures being given to government school children to students of government-aided minority institutions also. While the nutritious meal scheme was extended to government-aided minority schools after it was introduced by late Chief Minister K. Kamaraj as ‘mid-day meal scheme’ to all, the recent welfare schemes such as breakfast scheme, 7.50% reservation in higher education, ‘puthumai penn’ scheme, etc. Even though the children studying in government and the government-aided schools were from a similar economic background, denying the welfare schemes to the children of the aided schools was against ‘social justice’ and unacceptable. Even though government-aided minority schools enjoyed excellent students’ strength, the Department of School Education was creating a lot of hurdles and problems in appointing teachers in approved and sanctioned posts and the officials were forcing the teachers appointed in these sanctioned posts to run from pillar to post for getting appointment approval.