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Radio programme soon to help SSLC students

By Our Staff Correspondent

MYSORE, MARCH 28. With a view to coaching slow learners among SSLC students, the Karnataka State Secondary Teachers Association in coordination with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will soon start airing teaching programmes on radio in Mysore, Dharwad, Gulbarga and Hassan districts, among others. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, the association's organising secretary, Narahari, said the teaching programmes would not only help the slow-learning students but also aimed at providing additional educational support to them in rural areas.

The programme had been launched in Bangalore and it was operating in a radius of 60 km. Plans were afoot to extend the services up to a radius of 100 km there.

Mr. Narahari said the association had proposed to expand the services, which were at present available only in Bangalore, to locations where AIR stations were situated. As part of the coaching, phone-in programmes would be organised to facilitate interaction between teachers and students. Meanwhile, the association has urged the Government to pay the salaries of the teachers in the first week of month as promised. "The teachers are being put to difficulty because of the delay in release of their salaries,'' he said. If the Government failed to ensure the timely release of salaries, the teachers, whose help would be required by the Government during evaluation of examination manuscripts and the elections, would not be able to discharge their responsibilities, he added.

Similarly, teachers of ITI were also suffering on account of non-release of salaries. He criticised the Government's decision to reduce the salary of ITI teachers to 60 per cent as a "retrograde'' step.

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