PUNE, Jan 3: Working president of State Planning Commission Prakash Jawdekar today said that a decision regarding the demands of agitating junior college teachers will be taken in the State Cabinet meeting scheduled in Mumbai on Tuesday.Talking to reporters at the fifth convention of Maharashtra State Teachers' Council, Jawdekar observed that his party (BJP) has clearly expressed its sympathetic stand towards the teachers, who are on a state-wide strike for the last 24 days for implementation of revised pay-scale recommended by the Fifth Pay Commission.``There should be no disparity in the pay-scales of primary, secondary and junior college teachers as recommended by the fifth pay commission,'' he said adding, ``BJP had made this point clear to the State Government at the Nagpur session of the State legislature which concluded recently''.Meanwhile, the simmering resentment of the students against the porolonged indefinite strike of the junior college teachers found a vent today when about Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad gheraoed Jawdekar and State education director Raghavendra Patil at the venue.The students sloganeered against the State Government for not taking any step towards ending the strike and sought explanation from Jawdekar and Patil. Jawdekar pacified the irked students by assuring them of the likely decision at cabinet's meeting on Tuesday.The ABVP threatened that in the event of no decision taken during the cabinet meeting, it would not allow any Minister or MLA to move anywhere in the State.
