IMPHAL, Jan 25: Another 17 teachers including six women of the third phase fast unto death of COTA have been arrested and sent to jail informed a statement of the COTA.
The third phase of the fast unto death began yesterday at Keishampat Junction.
Standing firmly on their stand not to accept census duty until the MOU signed between the Government and the COTA is converted into action, more teachers staged a work out from census operation held at SDO office Wangoi, Imphal West district today.
A statement of the council further said that the general secretary of the All India Trade Union Council (AITUCC), Manipur, had visited the striking teachers and supporting the agitation of the teachers, assured that AITUCC will apprise and mount pressure on the human resource minister and chief minister of Manipur of the prevailing situation.
