Team Herald
PANJIM: Close on the heels of the ongoing para teachers strike, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said that demonstrations and protests are not going to solve any issues but the demands of the workers would be met only after they make a proper representation to the government.
“Coming on the streets, protesting is not going to solve any issues. Make a representation, convince us with the demands and get it done,” Parsekar told media persons on Friday.
“At least on the part of teachers it is not right to sit and protest, not to attend classes, this is not something that you want to teach students,” he added.
The Chief Minister said the government is sensitive towards every section of society and is committed towards their welfare. “I will appeal to the people not to fall prey to some leaders and resort to a strike. This is not the right way,” he stated.
The advice came following the cabinet granting its nod to two major demands of teachers from the vocational streams and staffers of Directorate of Printing and Stationery.
Around 300 vocational stream teachers got revised salaries, including single and double part-time teachers. On the other hand, employees of printing and stationary, whose double overtime and compensatory off was reduced to one option while they work in any emergency was resolved with government deciding to pay their arrears.
“Let me tell you, these people never came on the road shouting slogans. Demands were genuine and I solved them,” he said.
According to him, the demonstrators lose sympathy (of government) through such actions while sometimes somebody (opposition) uses them and their issues.
