New trend catches on in MLC election campaign

Visakhapatnam | Saturday | 16th February, 2019

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Interestingly, he even offered discounts on household articles in some shops and a fee subsidy for the children of teachers. There are many problems such as promotions, scale-up gradation and others thar remain to be solved. But all these promises are good for the teachers if they are realised. A five-day working week, PF and ESI implementation for teachers in private educational institutions, two Mandal Education Officer (MEO) posts in each mandal, a deputy education officer (Dy.EO) for each assembly constituency and two DEO posts for the district were among the promises made in his manifesto.“It’s a new trend in election campaigns. The problems are different for each category of teachers, including panchayat raj, municipal and zilla parishad and ashram schools, besides tribal and social welfare,” said Satish, a teacher from Narsipatnam.Kishore Kumar told TOI that he had been providing services such as blood donation, free accommodation in Visakhapatnam to teachers of North Andhra districts and a special accommodation for those who visited the city for medical services..