FUTA vows to carry on with strike
August 5, 2012, 9:54 pmby Dasun Edirisinghe, the island
The Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) yesterday said that it would continue its strike.
FUTA President Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Devasiri told The Island that the strikers would continue their talks with Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa.
University teachers demand that 6 per cent of the GDP be allocated to the education sector, they be consulted when taking decisions on the higher education system and their salaries be increased substantially.
"We discussed our demands with Minister Rajapaksa last Wednesday,"the FUTAsaid.
Dr. Devasiri said that their protests and awareness campaigns would be continued at university level as the government had failed to meet university teachers’ demands.
He claimed that a section of the media was publishing wrong reports on their demands.
Secretary to the Higher Education Ministry Dr. Sunil Jayantha Navaratne said that the ministry always accommodated reasonable requests of university teachers but they wanted to have their problems solved by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The Presidential Secretary declined to hold the third round of discussions as FUTA objected to the appointment of a presidential commission to solve the issue.
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