Vadodara: Pressing for its long-pending demands, the Technology Teachers Forum (TTF) of M S University’s Faculty of Technology and Engineering (FTE) started dharna protest programme at the Kalabhavan campus on Wednesday evening.The teachers body, which has announced that it will hold similar protests every evening till January 21, is demanding that the university should give graded salary to temporary teachers, clear long-due career advancement scheme (CAS) promotions, restore their curtailed vacation and pay seventh pay salary to all university teachers.Ahead of the protest programme, MSU officials appealed TTF not to take the dharna route and instead hold talks with them. But TTF continued its protest as per the announcement even as other staff associations including the Baroda University Teachers Association, the Baroda University Staff Association and the Maharaja Sayajirao Vishwavidyalaya Shaikshik Sangh declared its support to the protest programme that was attended by nearly 75 teachers.MSU in-charge registrar N K Ojha said that he had personally called TTF office-bearers on January 14 and also on Wednesday to hold talks.“Since the last couple of years, our campus has not witnessed any dharna programmes and we wanted to resolve their issues amicably but the TTF office-bearers did not turn up for the meeting,” he said.TTF officials however said that they have already held a series of meeting with all the concerned authorities both at the university and Gandhinagar.“We have been given hollow promises. We have conveyed to the university officials that if they want to hold talks, they should come and meet us at the faculty,” a TTF office-bearer said.

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