APTF temporarily suspends Special TET dharna after CM Naidu assurance to in-service teachers

The Andhra Pradesh Teachers Federation on Sunday, 6 September 2026, temporarily suspended its indefinite dharna over the Special TET after an assurance from Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu that in-service teachers’ concerns would be examined and that they would not face difficulties. APJAC chairman A. Vidya Sagar told protesters of the Chief Minister’s assurance. He also noted that Saturday’s employee-union talks had yielded two pending dearness allowances, appointment of a chair for the 12th Pay Revision Commission, and other service issues. That Saturday package sits beside the Sunday TET pause as the week’s labour-calendar context.

APTF State president Chennupati Manjula, general secretary K. Basavalinga Raju, and former general secretary P. Panduranga Varaprasad Rao urged the government to incorporate APTF amendments and secure NCTE approval. They noted that education sits on the Concurrent List and sought an Assembly resolution to the Centre. The federation said it would remain vigilant and that the dharna was only temporarily suspended. This file is distinct from the earlier APUTF hunger-strike end recorded on a previous masthead — different federation acronym, different calendar day. Mixing the two federations would blur who suspended what and on whose assurance.

Must-cover for this cutting includes Chief Minister Naidu, whose assurance triggered the temporary pause. Political desks should not invent a finished Special TET gazette rewrite or an NCTE letter number that was not locked. In-service teachers watching the Special TET file care about whether written orders follow the spoken assurance; a temporary dharna pause is leverage held in reserve, not a surrender of the Concurrent-List and NCTE asks. The locked set is the temporary suspension, the CM assurance line via Vidya Sagar, the Saturday DA and PRC chair outcomes named in the same brief, and the APTF leadership’s vigilance caveat.

Teacher federations in Andhra have used dharna calendars to force Concurrent-List and NCTE questions into the Secretariat’s week. A temporary suspension is not a withdrawal. Readers should hold the assurance as a political commitment pending written orders, and should refuse any invented claim that every in-service teacher’s difficulty is already cured. Vijayawada remains the stage for the Sunday pause. Hold the named APTF office-bearers; refuse invented strike-call dates beyond the temporary suspension locked here.

Vijayawada’s Sunday pause sits next to Saturday’s employee-union gains — two pending dearness allowances and a 12th PRC chair — without merging them into one order. APTF’s named leadership still wants amendments written in and NCTE approval secured, with an Assembly resolution to the Centre on the Concurrent List. Chief Minister Naidu’s assurance is the must-cover hinge. Until written Special TET instructions appear, the dharna remains only temporarily suspended, and readers should treat vigilance as the federation’s live posture.