Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SN/SP)

Mangalore, Feb 18: In support of their various demands, the state Special School Teachers and Non-teaching Staffs Association held a protest in front of the deputy commissioner’s Office here on Tuesday February 17.

The special students accompanying the teachers during the protest happened to be the special attraction of the protest conducted under the leadership of Vasant Kumar Shetty, general secretary of the Association.

All the special education institutions working for special children must be brought under the administration of the educational department. The teachers, assistant teachers and non-teaching staffs of special schools must receive all the facilities given to the general school teachers coming under educational department, the protestors demanded.

They insisted on submitting a memorandum demanding funding of their institutions through the zilla panchayats, by putting an end to the present practice of seeking funding through the central government.
 
Suitable grants should be allocated to fulfill the demands of the special teachers in the budget proposals to be moved by the state government for the year 2009-10, they demanded.

The administrative personnel, teachers and non-teaching staffs of Sanidya Special School participated in the protest.