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Mukhtar Khan / AP
Indian policemen detain a Kashmiri teacher during a protest in Srinagar on July 16, 2012.
Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir detained dozens of government teachers during a protest on Monday, The Associated Press reports. The teachers had taken to the streets demanding a hike in salary and regularization of their jobs.
Tauseef Mustafa / AFP - Getty Images
A teacher holds a placard during a protest in Srinagar on July 16, 2012. 50 Rupees equals $0.90 USD.
Fayaz Kabli / Reuters
A Kashmiri government teacher inside a police van after he was detained during a protest in Srinagar on July 16, 2012.
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Asking for a higher pay is a civil matter. Why is the Indian military involved in curbing this civil protest? If occupied Kashmir is an Indian state, what happened to its civillian police? Is the Indian Military ruling the occupied kashmir? Isn't this a shame?
Often, the Islamic militants are sponsored and supported by Pakistan. Indian muslims are the most literate, the most prosperous, and the most free --of any muslims anywhere.
Probably the police in Kashmir has to dress in military gear with flak jackets due to the Pakistan sponsored militancy. Atleast the teachers are free to protest and protests get broken up in more civil ways by water instead of bullets.
The worst part is that after Romney and his Republican cronies hear about this, their Education Initiative will be to outsource American teaching to India for 90 cents a day!
Now that's funny.
Looks like the India teachers don't have a NEA (National Education Association) to bleed their country dry, with excessive benfits & inflated pay. Along with the knowledge that once tenured, never to be fired for poor performance in the class room. Just reassigned to do more damage else where.
Why is it that India has so many well educated folks and teachers with such low pay. I thought GREAT pay produced GREAT teachers and GREAT STUDENTS. ............ Thats what the NEA has pushed around in America for over 50 years.
And yet were ranked at 27th in world testing, below India.
Poor teachers of India. ,
I think you should ask teachers like myself if their pay is inflated, or maybe just look at how much comes out of our checks to pay into our own retirement. It is a district by district matter. If you are worried teachers are bleeding the system dry than push to change the core principal in our education system, which is to educate ALL students.