Part-time government schoolteachers launched an indefinite fast and strike in Chennai on Monday seeking higher remuneration.
A total of 16,459 persons were appointed as part-time teachers in 2012 by the AIADMK government. Currently there were only 12,199 persons as some of them had quit and around 500 persons had died of various causes and another 1,000 persons had retired, said T. Raja Devakanth, general secretary of Tamil Nadu Part-time Special Teachers Association.
The teachers are protesting at the Directorate of Public Instruction in Nungambakkam.