College Teachers wear black badges, demand work from home

Amritsar: As per the call given by the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers’ Union (PCCTU), the members of the local unit of DAV College, Amritsar, wore black badges to protest against the officials of the Higher Education Department regarding demands of teachers. Calling the department’s attitude ‘stubborn’, Dr BB Yadav, Area Secretary, GNDU, Amritsar, said college teachers in Punjab have been forced to come to college even when all classes were being conducted online. “It’s the indifferent and stubborn attitude of the officials of the department that has forced us to come on streets,” he said. The union has written to the CM requesting to direct the department to allow work from home to them as the situation had become very alarming in Punjab. “Education Minister Tript Rajinder Bajwa had assured the PCCTU and subsequently instructed the officials of Higher Education Department to issue the circular to colleges for allowing work from home to teachers. Surprisingly, the bureaucrats of the department have failed to implement the directions and keep misleading them on this issue,” he said. Dr Gurdas Singh Sekhon, district president, Amritsar unit of PCCTU, said many teachers working in city colleges, had tested positive in the past few days. He said the agitation will intensify if there were no directions in this regard. TNS