Doctors, teachers and professors fight against the Gujarat government.

KEY POINTS :

• Three movements are very much under discussion in Gujarat.
•   Doctors, teachers and professors doing white-collar jobs have started fighting against the government with their demands.
• The biggest impact of these three movements is on patients as well as students.

August is called the month of revolution for the freedom and rights of the country. On the 15th of this month, our country was liberated from the tyranny of the British, i.e. it can be said that August is the month of agitation. 

At that time, three movements are very much under discussion in Gujarat. Doctors, teachers and professors doing white-collar jobs have started fighting against the government with their demands.

 The biggest impact of these three movements is on patients as well as students. Students’ studies are adversely affected in the teacher-professor struggle if patients do not get timely treatment following the doctor’s movement.

As many as 2,000 junior doctors across the state have gone on strike with some of their demands in the mood to fight the government. Doctors are in the mood to fight the government to the last with their demands.

 Resident doctors in cities including Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara and Jamnagar are on strike. Ordinary citizens are being crushed in this ongoing fight between the doctor-government.

 During the strike, emergency treatment by doctors was discontinued, leaving many patients in critical condition, with one or two patients dying due to lack of treatment.

 The movement, which has been going on for the last one week, is slowly ending. Junior doctors from Surat-Ahmedabad have now agreed to provide covid as well as emergency services.

Why did the Doctor movement start?

The period of postgraduate study was extended by the Health Commissioner due to the huge influx of patients in the covid time, MD, M.S. And extended the duration of the batch of Diploma Doctor by three months as well as issued a circular stating that the bond period is 1.2, i.e. one-month duty as two months bond service.

 Still, now the government has backtracked on its promises. There is outrage among junior doctors who have been fired for introducing themselves to the commissioner, prompting doctors across the state to go on strike.

On August 1, the teachers’ digital movement began

Digital agitation of 50 thousand teachers The

Teachers studying in the grant-aided and government secondary and higher secondary schools have taken the path of agitation on various costly issues. 

The teachers started the agitation on social media from 1st August, which was run till 7th August, despite making several representations earlier, but no solution was found. About 50,000 teachers joined the movement. 

National Education Union General Secretary R.P. Patel said more than 5,000 selfies and posts were received on the first day of the agitation. A large number of teachers will send their photographs in the coming days.

 Convenors have been appointed in four zones and each district across the state, which has received a wide response. There were threats to continue the agitation if the government did not call the teachers even after the agitation.

Why did the teacher movement start?

National Federation of Teachers grants to state and government secondary and higher secondary teachers outstanding issues, such as consecutive jobs, recruitment of old teachers, payment of 7th pay commission instalments, an increase as per 5-1-65 resolution of principal appointment, demand for implementation of an old pension scheme.

 Has been running for some time. Despite repeated representations, no solution has yet been forthcoming, and they have launched a digital movement.

Professors protest against the privatization of Granted College.

Granted, colleges in the state against professors will now be owned by a private university, i.e. the granted colleges will be privatized. This decision has been protested by the Gujarat State Teachers’ Federation today. C.U. Professors at Shah College protested against the privatization by wearing a black band.

Why did the professor movement start?

In this regard, the President of Gujarat State Professors’ Federation, Pankaj Shrimali, said that it had been decided not to hand over many colleges to private universities. This decision is wrong. The decision will hurt the professor, students and parents.

 Due to privatization, the college cannot be used by the government. A private university will take over the management of the college, so students will now have to spend 50-55 thousand rupees for a course taught for 1800-2000 rupees.