Birgunj, February 16 :

The Teachers’ Union of Private Schools here is set to re-launch its agitation, as differences between the teachers and school proprietors persist on the issue of employment guarantee and minimum salary scale.

Some 33,000 students in the schools are likely to be affected by the strike.

Speaking at a press meet held by the private schools’ problem solving task force this afternoon, central chairman of the union Rabi Nandan Singh threatened agitation if an environment to meet their demands were not created.

Task force member Amar Bahadur Gautam said, “Children should not be affected due to the clash between teachers and school proprietors.”

“The problems have not been solved as the PABSON and N-PABSON disagreed with the suggestion of the task force,” said another task force member, Yugal Kishor Prasad. The task force was formed to solve the problems of private schools in Parsa district. The task force had suggested a minimum payment of Rs 2,700 as salary to teachers and to make

them permanent after two years of service. The proprietors have rejected the suggestion.