Handbook Teacher Organization in India

Abstract

From Foreword: This Handbook lists teacher associations which have supplied the information contained in it. I can understand how much labour this must have involved for Shri E.W. Franklin, Executive Secretary, AIFEA, in collecting, classifying and editing the information presented in this Handbook. I can also understand that this work must have taxed his patience very often. This is because the teachers of India are not publicity minded and because most of these organisations do not have sufficient funds of their own and have to depend on the honorary work of their members. As such it becomes very difficult for anybody to elicit information of any kind in this country from any body of workers. So far as teachers are concerned, it becomes all the more difficult to know from them what their organisation is, for what it stands, how many members it has and what its annual budget is. Teachers work in the organisations as a labour of love.