Owing to their deteriorating health condition, leaders of the A.P. United Teachers’ Federation (UTF), who had launched an indefinite hunger strike on October 18 demanding restoration of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS), called off their protest on October 20.
Speaking to the media at the strike venue, UTF president N. Venkateswarlu said the protest was being temporarily put on hold on doctors’ advice, and that the federation would soon resume its fight for restoration for the OPS and take it to its logical conclusion.
He said, riding roughshod over the pleas of the employees and teachers, the government was trying to thrust the Guaranteed Pension Scheme (GPS), which was unacceptable to them.
