Teachers in India have no shortage of reasons to protest, and this month many of them have.
In Haryana, the Haryana Vidyalaya Adhyapak Sangh has reportedly warned of a demonstration outside the education minister’s office. It argues that SIR and census duties, followed by a campaign around the Prime Minister’s birthday, have eaten into the time needed to finish the syllabus before exams. The state’s university and college teachers have taken a “Save Higher Education – Save Campus” campaign from Kurukshetra to Hisar against an order abolishing long-vacant posts. At Delhi University’s Motilal Nehru College, faculty protested this week after a DUSU election campaigner allegedly assaulted a teacher. In Shimla, primary teachers have been on a relay hunger strike since late July against a School Complex System that, their federation says, places 15 to 20 schools under a single principal.
