Teachers protest outside Manish Sisodia’s house over post

Scores of guest teachers on Saturday staged protest outside deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s residence demanding permanent appointment.

“Our demands include permanent appointment of guest teachers for the posts that are lying vacant, decision on fixed salaries and reappointment of any guest teacher removed in the past due to transfers or any other reason,” a statement by Delhi Guest Teac-hers’ Association said.

“We had met Manish Sisodia two months back with our demands and he had assured us of looking into the issue, but nothing has been done so far. So we have decided to boycott classes in our respective schools,” it said.

The Delhi government had in June directed the Directorate of Education (DoE) to reappoint all guest teachers in government schools who were previously removed due to transfer and postings of permanent teachers.

Mr Sisodia, who is also the education minister, had announced that the guest teachers who were removed due to indiscipline and poor performance will not be re-engaged.

However, those who were disengaged prior to May 10 due to lack of vacancy in their schools will be deployed suitably in a different school.

The teachers, however, claimed that the appointments have not been made so far.