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Urdu
medium teachers climb water tank to press for demands
Monday February 21, 2011 05:38:40 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: In a protest
inspired by a Bollywood film, half a dozen qualified Urdu
teachers, including three women, climbed atop a water tank just
across the Uttar Pradesh assembly complex here and threatened to
jump off if their demands are not conceded.
"Our repeated appeals to the government to grant Urdu teachers
parity in pay scales with the basic education teachers has fallen
on deaf ears, so we have no option but to give up our lives by
jumping down from this water tank," said Hisam Uddin Siddiqui,
president of the Muammil Urdu Association, who is one of the six
teachers.
"Every time we have met people in the government, we have been
assured that our demand would be looked into sympathetically, but
nothing appears to have been done so far, so where do we go?"
lamented Siddiqui. He said there are as many as 5,000 such
teachers across the state.
Hundreds of teachers gathered in support of the agitators and
raised anti-government slogans.
The administration has sought assistance of the army to get them
down from the 50-feet high water tank.
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