{"id":296,"date":"2017-09-06T17:40:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T12:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=296"},"modified":"2017-09-06T17:42:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T12:12:41","slug":"teachers-day-turns-to-protest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/09\/06\/teachers-day-turns-to-protest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers\u2019 Day turns to Protest Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 5:<\/strong> While most educational institutes observed Teacher&#8217;s Day throughout the state and country on Tuesday, 17 government colleges under the banner of the Arunachal Pradesh College Teachers&#8217; Association (APCTA) observed &#8216;Protest Day&#8217; in solidarity with the &#8216;Court Arrest Programme&#8217; of the All India Federation of University and College Teachers&#8217; Organization (AIFUCTO) held at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.<br \/>\nThe Court Arrest Programme of AIFUCTO was also observed by all university and college teachers of India.<br \/>\nGovernment colleges of Arunachal Pradesh reportedly observed the protest in their respective colleges by boycotting the Teachers&#8217; Day celebration on September 5 and performed their duties by wearing black badges.<br \/>\nThey also staged dharnas in front of their respective colleges using banners and placards as a mark of protest.<br \/>\nThis is the fifth nation-wide democratic movements launched by the AIFUCTO and the Federation of Central University Teachers&#8217; Association (FEDCUTA) for fulfilment of various demands, but the central government is reportedly reluctant to discuss the problems of the teachers.<br \/>\nIn a release, the APCTA said that it fully endorses all future course of action to be taken up by the AIFUCTO and FEDCUTA in the coming days.<br \/>\nIt also appealed to the national organizations to give a call for an all India strike to save higher education, fundamental rights and service conditions of the college and university teachers of the country.<br \/>\nThe 11-point demand of the teachers include publishing the report and implementing the 7th UGC Pay Revision Recommendations after consultation with AIFUCTO and other teachers&#8217; body; 100 per cent financial assistance for uniform and simultaneous implementation of 7th pay scale; pay scales and service conditions for temporary, adhoc, part time, guest teachers, block grant teachers and self-financing teachers and employees; scraping API and extend dates of RC\/OC; rejecting the pension scheme 2004 and pension for all teachers; abolish anomalies of 6th pay scale; stop in budget cut of education, with increase of up to six per cent GDP, besides other demands for the benefit of teachers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Sep 5: While most educational institutes observed Teacher&#8217;s Day throughout the state and country on Tuesday, 17 government colleges under the banner of the Arunachal Pradesh College Teachers&#8217; Association (APCTA) observed &#8216;Protest Day&#8217; in solidarity with the &#8216;Court Arrest Programme&#8217; of the All India Federation of University and College Teachers&#8217; Organization (AIFUCTO) held at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}