Protesting lecturer S Anita said they have been working, including during elections, but have yet to receive regular salaries. She urged the government to complete regularisation and release pending pay.
As the news broke, frantic parents called schools to enquire about the safety of their children and rushed to pick them up. In some schools, students were shifted to safe places.
The victim was a student of a government-aided English school for tribal children in Bhokardan tehsil, District Superintendent of Police Ajaykumar Bansal said.
Mizoram: CM Lalduhoma chaired a meeting of the state EMRS governing council to review the present status of the schools, officials said.
The protest was triggered after the school's only teacher, a Political Science faculty member, was transferred following a court order on his plea, leaving the school with no teaching staff.
Kanwar Yatra 2025: All government, private, and aided schools in Gautam Buddha Nagar district will be shut on July 23 for Classes 1 to 12.
College and school students shouted slogans demanding compensation to victims' families and discontinuation of 'outdated' and 'unsafe' aircrafts used by the Bangladesh Air Force.