Not ready to hold talks with striking teachers,TN govt to HC

The Tamil Nadu government Tuesday informed the Madras high court that the state was not ready to hold talks with the protesting government employees or striking teachers.

There were cases pending before the court challenging the strike and the government cannot hold talks with the protesters, advocate-general Vijay Narayan said.

Narayan made the submission before Justice N Kirubakaran who asked the Joint Action Committee of Teachers OrganisationsGovernment Employees Organisations (JACTO-GEO) to inform the court if the protesting teachers were willing to withdraw the strike and resume work at least till the exams are over.

Advocate NGR Prasad representing the unions submitted that they were ready to withdraw the strike immediately if the government was ready to hold talks with them.

He wanted the court to pass a direction to that effect.

To this, Narayan submitted that the government had already held talks with the unions thrice and about 85 per cent of the teachers had ..