Member of the  Legislative  Council Y A Narayanaswamy has assured that he will  fight for the increment for Kannada teachers of  aided schools.

He was speaking at an  interactive programme  organised by the Sabarmathi Primary School in S Govind Gowda Auditorium.He also said that the pending  increment due to the Kannada teachers  has already been discussed at the  Government level, but because of the unstable  scenario at the state, the  desired  result has not been  arrived upon   yet. But  he also  assured that the representatives of the teachers are continuing to talk with the government  about the same.

Discrimination

“The fifth pay commission has discriminated  against the highschool  teachers and we will continue to protest against it.” he said.

Utilisation

He also added that the officials should relate to the problems of the teachers and ensure that all the facilities are utilised to the  maximum extent.

He also added that he was elected as an independent and has not aspirations to join any of the political parties.

Educationist C Byrappa, District highschool principals’ association secretary M Somanna, District Highschool Assistant Teachers’ association D V Ramachandrappa, N Srinivas Reddy, Block Education Officer K S Nagaraj Gowda, B Venkatesh and others participated in the  programme.