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L-G urged to regularise contract teachers of MCD

NEW DELHI: Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president J.P. Agarwal has urged Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna to regularise the services of over 4,000 contract teachers who have been working in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi-run schools for the past seven years.

Accompanied by a delegation of MCD school teachers, the DPCC president met the L-G recently and submitted a memorandum requesting him to accord teachers due respect, get them justice and regularise their jobs. “Instead, services of many teachers have been terminated by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led MCD,” he complained.

Pointing out that contract teachers had been teaching in the MCD schools since 2001 under the impression that their services would be regularised, Mr. Agarwal said: “The decision of the Corporation was inhuman and unjust and would push over 4,100 families into starvation. The Congress party would fight the matter at every forum to provide justice to the terminated MCD teachers.”

The DPCC president said the BJP-ruled MCD was taking away the jobs of those already employed. “The worst sufferers of the acute shortage of teachers in the MCD schools are students. This has attracted criticism from all quarters but the BJP leadership in the MCD is least concerned about the plight of students and teachers,” he added.

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