Leaders of the AP United Teachers’ Federation on Saturday took strong exception to the “pressure being exerted by the police and officials of the Education Department on teachers to prevent them from participating in the proposed protest on September 1 in support of the demand for repeal of the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) and restoration of the old pension scheme.
In a statement, the federation president N. Venkateswarlu and general secretary K.S.S. Prasad said teachers were being given notices with a warning against participating in the protest in Vijayawada. Some of them were threatened that they would be made to pay a fine of Rs. 2 lakh while personal vehicles (motorcycles and cars) of a few others had been taken away from them, they alleged.
They said in view of the protest, the department officials had issued a G.O. asking teachers not to avail themselves of leave in the next 10 days.
