Till Jan 22 this year, advertisements were posted for 21,678 teachers’ vacancies in Maharashtra of which over 12,522 were in zilla parishads and 2,951 in mahanagar palikas, 477 in municipalities and 5,728 in aided schools.
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The teachers marched from Shaniwar Wada to the collector’s office where they handed a letter to the district collector followed by another to the education commissioner.
The key demands are freeing teachers of non-teaching responsibilities, preventing private entities such as politicians and businessmen from managing government schools, and allocating 25 percent of the 14th and 15th Finance Commission funds to primary education.