Killinochchi, Mullaitivu teachers join Trincomalee protest

[TamilNet, Thursday, 27 March 2003, 01:19 GMT]
Volunteer teachers from Killinochchi and Mullaitivu Wednesday joined their counter parts in the east in the sit-in-protest campaign now being held in front of the North East Provincial Ministry of Education for the twenty fourth day demanding that all the thousand volunteer teachers in the northeast be made permanent without delay and as promised by the government earlier, sources said.

North East Volunteer Teachers Consortium launched the sit-in-protest on the March 3rd.

Members of the Ceylon Tamil Teachers Union (CTTU) also Thursday participated in the sit-in-protest campaign expressing their solidarity to the cause of volunteer teachers, sources said.





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