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Southern teachers meet PM, push for improved security measures, better welfare and added benefits
BANGKOK, Sept 13 -- Representatives of Thailand's teachers' federations in the three southern border provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat met Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at Government House in the capital on Monday, asking for improved security measures, better welfare and added benefits.
Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat and Deputy Interior Minister Thaworn Senneam led representatives of southern teachers to meet the premier to submit a letter requesting assistance and give information on the security situation in the three violence-plagued southernmost provinces and their ongoing attacks on teachers.
The three teachers' federations proposed a three-pronged proposal for the government for consideration.
The teachers had called for an improved management policy to effectively address situation in the southern provinces as the violence in the areas was not easing up but intensifying.
Security measures should be adjusted and implemented strictly to protect lives of teachers and educators in the region and should be evaluated on monthly basis.
The teachers also called for the prime minister or ministers to show concern by presiding at the funeral ceremony for the slain teachers in order to honour them and accept their children for work in government agencies.
The government should provide better benefits and incentives, such as higher regular and special pay, to the teachers who are based in the high risk areas to boost their moral.
The representatives of the teachers federations in southern provinces had expressed satisfaction after the meeting following the positive response from the government and the premier.
Deputy Interior Minister Thaworn said the government would consider the teachers' proposal and it would be on the agenda of the weekly Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
The teachers federation representatives and the prime minister conferred after two Narathiwat teachers were shot dead by presumed insurgents last Tuesday and 365 schools in the province closed the following day due to the educators' safety concerns. All schools that closed in protest re-opened on Monday.
Last Tuesday's violence raises the death toll of teachers killed by presumed insurgents to 137 while at least 140 were wounded since January 2004 when violence re-erupted in the three border provinces, including Yala and Pattani.
The overall death toll rose to at least 4,100 people including local residents, security personnel, teachers as well as known and suspected insurgents.
Mr Abhisit also said he expects to make a one-day visit to the southernmost provinces at the end of this month before attending the United Nations' General Assembly in New York. (MCOT online news)
Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat and Deputy Interior Minister Thaworn Senneam led representatives of southern teachers to meet the premier to submit a letter requesting assistance and give information on the security situation in the three violence-plagued southernmost provinces and their ongoing attacks on teachers.
The three teachers' federations proposed a three-pronged proposal for the government for consideration.
The teachers had called for an improved management policy to effectively address situation in the southern provinces as the violence in the areas was not easing up but intensifying.
Security measures should be adjusted and implemented strictly to protect lives of teachers and educators in the region and should be evaluated on monthly basis.
The teachers also called for the prime minister or ministers to show concern by presiding at the funeral ceremony for the slain teachers in order to honour them and accept their children for work in government agencies.
The government should provide better benefits and incentives, such as higher regular and special pay, to the teachers who are based in the high risk areas to boost their moral.
The representatives of the teachers federations in southern provinces had expressed satisfaction after the meeting following the positive response from the government and the premier.
Deputy Interior Minister Thaworn said the government would consider the teachers' proposal and it would be on the agenda of the weekly Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
The teachers federation representatives and the prime minister conferred after two Narathiwat teachers were shot dead by presumed insurgents last Tuesday and 365 schools in the province closed the following day due to the educators' safety concerns. All schools that closed in protest re-opened on Monday.
Last Tuesday's violence raises the death toll of teachers killed by presumed insurgents to 137 while at least 140 were wounded since January 2004 when violence re-erupted in the three border provinces, including Yala and Pattani.
The overall death toll rose to at least 4,100 people including local residents, security personnel, teachers as well as known and suspected insurgents.
Mr Abhisit also said he expects to make a one-day visit to the southernmost provinces at the end of this month before attending the United Nations' General Assembly in New York. (MCOT online news)
