Kshitiz Kant;Lucknow
A woman about 41,
whenever I visit eco-garden Lucknow for my field news collection purpose, sits
with her supporters to stage Dharna. I
have visited the place 4 to 6 times since May this year and have found her
presence there.
Eco-garden was built up during the
tenure of BSP government and is fully stoned built. The seasons make acute
effect here on people. This week on Saturday afternoon when I asked Uma Devi
who were teaching in government primary school as Shiksha Mitra in Kanpur
Nagar, why she is there?
She told me, "We are leading the
Shiksha Mitra in whole the state, our honorarium which was fixed Rs 40000 per
month in the regime of previous government now has been slashed to Rs 10000 per month. Our demand is the honorarium to
be maintained as earlier it was. For
this demand we had begun my Dharna in the month of May this year. It began
after a mass protest against the Government's decision to slash ours perks. We
have gone to demonstrate before the State Assembly. We have had our heads tonsured.
We have faced all the tyrants since the May 18th in the scorching heat blow;
now we are facing the winter gale too in the month of December."
We all are the followers of Mahatma
Gandhi and shall face every difficulties whatever the government's action be.
It is
noticeable that the High Court Allahabad had cancelled 1lakh 72 thousand
Shiksha Mitra’s appointments. The apex court contended in its verdict that
these candidates did not qualify the required eligibility.
The
learned counsel for the aggrieved had said that “their recruitment were
illegal.” The bench had heard sides of the respondent and the plaintiff’s
argument to maintain the placement of Shiksha Mitra in government’s primary
schools.
The High Court had said in its verdict that these candidates had not
passed the TET, so their appointments could not be done on posts of Assitant Teachers; while the counsels for the Shiksha Mitr told to the court that these
candidates were adjusted after the ruling of the government. The appointments had
been done after a big shortage of teachers in primary schools.
The case was filed in the Supreme Court and the
Apex court upheld the decision of high court Allahabad.
It is noticeable that the Shiksha Mitr’s intense
agitation has been carried out next day of the Supreme Court’s verdict came.
Thousands of Shiksha Mitr had demonstrated in
front of the office of Sarvshiksha
Abhiyan in Allahabad and protested and shouted slogans against the Modi
government in the centre and Yogi’s government in UP. The demonstrators were
demanding SLP in Supreme Court for their adjustment.
The
demonstration took statewide intense protest and they were demanding from the
government to bring an ordinance for adjustment so that their services in different primary school could be
saved.
The condition of
resolving this problem is in the government’s hand; no affirmative response or
message has been so far sent from the government; the place where all Dharnas
are performed by the people of state is also the witness of this lady. She is
optimistic and waiting that her Satyagrah for the Shiksha Mitr of the state
shall forced the state highness to a call from the government someday.
