Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shikshak Sangh

Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shikshak Sangh (UPMSS-Uttar Pradesh Secondary Teachers Association). The formation of UPMSS took place in 1956. Maheshwar Pandey was its founder president.

Expansion

Covering area of Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shikshak Sangh—up to each secondary school (all the districts of Uttar Pradesh)

Formation

• School Label unit:

Each school will form a unit organization and will elect a council with a president,secretary and district delegates etc.

• District Label Unit:

Each district will form a unit. President, Secretary and district delegates of each school will form a district unit by secret poll and will elect district president,district secretary, state delegates etc.

• State Organization:

District President,district Secretary and state delegates will form a council of state including President, General Secretary etc.

First split

The first time the state president was elected directly by teachers was in 1972. Om Prakash Sharma won and became UPMSS President. Maheshwar Pandey was badly defeated in this election. In this election two waves were blowing i.e. east and west. Sharma was from Meerut district and was supported by western districts. Pandey was from the east and was supported by eastern districts. Kanpur district was major district in schools numbers so Kanpur was balancing and decider. Kanpur openly supported Sharma. As a result Pandey formed a new group within UPMSS known as UPMSS (Pandey Group).

Parliamentary board

Three MLC`S of Teachers constituency and district president and secretary concerning district decide ticket for Teachers constituency election. Monopoly of Sharma in this board. Eight seats of Teachers Constituency in Uttar Pradesh State.

Second split

After general election of President of state in 1972, there was not any election. Sharma was continuously the President of UPMSS without a general election. Due to lack of democracy R N Thakurayi formed new group of UPMSS and now it is called Thakurayi Group of UPMSS.

Third split

Due to monopoly of Sharma, in 2010 Raj Bahadur Singh Chandel^[3] MLC from Kanpur Teachers Constituency formed another new UPMSS group called UPMSS (Chandel Group).

Groups of UPMSS

1. Om Prakash Sharma group: Major group of UPMSS, Main leader of group :Om Prakash Sharma, Five teachers MLC`s are in this group in Legislative Council of state Uttar Pradesh.
2. Pandey group: minor group but active,main leader Shrikant Dwivedi
3. Thakurayi group: very minor group
4. Chandel group: effective group, Main leader: Raj Bahadur Singh Chandel, Three teachers MLC`s are in this group in Legislative Council of state Uttar Pradesh

Major Teachers Movements

1. Teachers Movement 1969: It was a huge & historical teachers movement which lasted for many months.Finally, the government agreed to review the salaries of teachers significant demand. From August 1, 1972 salaries of teachers and non teaching staff revised by state government UP. The movement led by Maheshwar Pandey President of UPMSS. Parity in salary of teachers to state employees came in effect from 1 November 1973. This parity of salary was given by Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna.
2. Teachers Movement 1977: It was also historical movement in the history of secondary education and UPMSS. Major issue of this movement was parity with central government employees in salaries, ultimately state government agreed with this issue. This movement was led by Sharma. It was a state level movement of teachers, prison Bleed. In this movement the following teachers made notable contributions: Mool Krishna Chaturvedi, Chandra Bhushan Tripathi, Shrikant Dwivedi, Asharfi Lal Mishra, Raj Bahadur Singh Chandel,Ramsut Agnihotri,Panchanan Rai,Mandhata Singh,Ram Adarsh Rai Sharma,Sanktha Dubey,Bansh Narain Rai,Indira Hridyesh.

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