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.
The recruitment process of teachers to Zilla Parishad, Municipal Council, Corporation as well as aided and semi-aided schools in the state began earlier this month with the opening of ‘Pavitra Portal’.
The BMC’s crackdown on schools not recognised by the education department begs the question, why has a robust ecosystem of alternative education mushroomed