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Our Correspondent in Ahmedabad
The Gujarat state government secondary and senior secondary employees strike entered the 11th day on Saturday and showed no sign of agreement with the state government authorities.
The 5,500 government-aided secondary and senior secondary school employees are demanding travelling allowance from 1998, and the state government has said that it would be only able to pay from February 2002.
The teachers are also demanding that there should not be more than 35 students per student in a class.
The government had imposed Essential Services Maintenance Act on Thursday and warned that grants from the state government would be scrapped if the employees don't take back their strike.
Meanwhile, nearly 100 teachers were arrested in Ahmedabad for demonstrating against the state government.
Anandiben Patel, the education minister said, "We can only commit something on February 2002, as there are byelections to be held in Gujarat in many places."
He said the state government would incur a deficit of Rs two billion, if the striking teachers' demands were met.
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