The teacher’s strike which was happening for the past six days in Chennai had come to an end finally. In Chennai, for the past 6 days, strike was conducted by teachers, as there was a huge difference in pay scale of teachers who had joined jobs before 2009 and after 2009.
The difference was in the range of rupees 15000-20000 and teachers were demanding to remove this difference and provide equal pay and were planning to even meet the chief minister of Tamilnadu to demand this. On December 24 they had planned to meet chief minister Edappadi Palanisamy but since he could not give time for the meeting, the teachers jumped into strike.
More than 300 teachers were health affected and admitted to hospital as strike was conducted before education department office at Chennai and finally strike was withdrawn after government, and representative Pradeep Yadav promised to form a committee for maintaining equal pay.
