Mumbai Beat

CM meets jr college teachers

Chief Minister Narayan Rane today assured the representatives of junior college teachers that he would discuss the issue of their revised pay hike with Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray. About 40,000 teachers affiliated to the Maharashtra Federation of Junior College Teachers Organisation had staged a 41-day agitation in December 8217;98-January 8217;99 to press for their demand for a revised pay hike. The union withdrew its stir after Thackeray8217;s assurance that their demands would be favourably considered. Rane told teachers since they had called off their stir following Thackeray8217;s appeal, he would meet Thackeray before taking a final decision. The decision will be taken by Friday, he said.