Gupta meets LG; seeks resumption of services of teachers

Opposition leader in Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta today met Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung and sought resumption of services of 2500 contractual teachers who were recently terminated.
Gupta along with other BJP MLAs Om Prakash Sharma and Jagdish Pradhan, also participated in a teachers' protest outside the residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
"These teachers were recruited years ago under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and were recently served termination notice. They were informed by the Delhi government that they were disengaged due to non-continuation of the posts by HRD Ministry," Gupta said during his address to the protesters.
"It is highly motivated and mischievous to say that the central government had done away with their services. Subsequent to termination of the services of contractual teachers under the schemem nearly 2.5 lakhs students are being denied education," he claimed.

The opposition leaders submitted a memorandum to Jung, asking that he should impress upon the Delhi government to resume the services of 2,500 teachers under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan without any further delay.
"LG gave a patient hearing to the leaders and assured to look into the matter," Delhi BJP said in a statement.

DelhI BJP President Satish Upadhyay alleged the Kejriwal government is "lingering" the matter of guest teachers because it intends to "replace" them with its party volunteers as "adhoc teachers".
"In its two budgets, Kejriwal government has done a lot of self-glorification for providing proper educational setup and funds for Delhi. Government is selling dreams of filling large number of vacancies of teachers in schools, but is not even prepared to talk and absorb the existing guest teachers.

Upadhyay and other party leaders including Srikant Sharma, Siddharthan, Manoj Tiwari, meanwhile, organised a prayer meeting at Hanuman Mandir in Connaught Place for victims of the tragic incident at Putingal Temple in Kerala.