Chennai: Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder S Ramadoss today urged the State government to withdraw all actions undertaken against the teachers who protested around a month ago.
He requested all the 1,111 school teachers and 27 college lecturers, who were suspended, to the reappointed to their respective posts. Tamilnadu government staff and teachers, under the banner Joint Action Council of Tamil Nadu Teachers’ Organisation and Government Employees Organisations (JACTO-GEO), started an indefinite strike on 22 January, pressing their nine-point charter of demands.
One of the main demands of the group was to revert back to the old pension scheme. But, a day after Chief Minister K Palaniswami appealed to the protesting employees to resume work, they called off their strike on 30 January.