As many as 40 teaching and non teaching staff of two Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas in the City, on February 6, will express support to the indefinite strike by 20,000 employees of 600 such schools across the country.
One of their demands is immediate implementation of the Central Service Pension Scheme -1972 which entitles them to pension.
“Staff at Kendriya Vidyalaya and Tibetan School Administration, our sister organisations, have been availing of pension benefits since a long time. While we are denied of the same benefits for the past 25 years,” said Rateesh Kumar, general secretary of Joint Action Committee, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, Bangalore unit.
The Vidyalayas had called for a nationwide strike in New Delhi in 2010, urging the Union government to meet their demands.
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