<p class="bodytext">A rally will be organised in the district on July 9, urging the government to take measures to save government schools.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The government schools will also remain closed on the day, said H S Chetan, Government Primary School Teachers’ Association district committee president.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Addressing reporters in Madikeri on Wednesday, he said that the primary school teachers will take part in the rally on July 9.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also urged the government to take measures to increase the admission of children by starting kindergarten classes at all government primary schools in the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The order to confine primary school teachers appointed before 2014 to teaching students from Class 1 to Class 5 should be scrapped. Primary school teachers who have completed their graduation should be considered as graduate teachers,” H S Chetan demanded.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The president also demanded that the pay scale of the teachers too should be fixed accordingly.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">Promotion</p>.<p class="bodytext">Primary School Teachers’ Association Somwarpet taluk president H N Manjunath demanded that the primary school teachers should be promoted as per the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.</p>.<p class="bodytext">District Primary School Teachers’ Association vice president Rekha Kumari, State Association joint secretary Revati, district organising secretary A V Manjunath and Virajpet Taluk Association president Surendra were present at the press meet.</p>
<p class="bodytext">A rally will be organised in the district on July 9, urging the government to take measures to save government schools.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The government schools will also remain closed on the day, said H S Chetan, Government Primary School Teachers’ Association district committee president.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Addressing reporters in Madikeri on Wednesday, he said that the primary school teachers will take part in the rally on July 9.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also urged the government to take measures to increase the admission of children by starting kindergarten classes at all government primary schools in the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The order to confine primary school teachers appointed before 2014 to teaching students from Class 1 to Class 5 should be scrapped. Primary school teachers who have completed their graduation should be considered as graduate teachers,” H S Chetan demanded.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The president also demanded that the pay scale of the teachers too should be fixed accordingly.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">Promotion</p>.<p class="bodytext">Primary School Teachers’ Association Somwarpet taluk president H N Manjunath demanded that the primary school teachers should be promoted as per the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.</p>.<p class="bodytext">District Primary School Teachers’ Association vice president Rekha Kumari, State Association joint secretary Revati, district organising secretary A V Manjunath and Virajpet Taluk Association president Surendra were present at the press meet.</p>