Brief History

Even after passing of twenty nine years of independence, the situation of teachers is almost as similar as at the time of independence. The struggle of teachers regarding effective representation of their grievances and demands in front of their respective authorities and union authorities bring up a thought in the mind of leaders and after serious laboriousnessand exchange of thoughts leaders came with an ideato form a Nationallevel body for all cadres of teachers to make efforts for uniting teachers under an umbrella where as several state unions persist in different states but there is less number of effective and strong national unions. This is the ALL INDIA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS ORGANIZATIONS (A.I.F.T.O.).

Foundation

It was incepted on 23 January, 1976 at Ahmedabad, Gujrat. The first pillars and founders of the AIFTO were Mr. V. K. Manchanda, Mr. Ram Prakash Gupta and Mr. Shive Kishore Sanadhya. Presidents and Secretary Generals and their period of office since 1976 are as follows :

The first National Level conference was held at Ahmedabad, Gujrat. It was inaugurated by ………………. The founder President of AIFTO was Late Mr. Sanadhya and the Secretary General was Late Mr. Pandit. It was their honest and hard work and dedication that developed AIFTO to a strong organization for all cadres of teachers at national level. The AIFTO has now 26 active state teacher associations affiliated to it with almost 1.2 million of teacher members.