Teachers observe black day, raise slogans against govt
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, September 5
Teachers of two different unions protested at the District Administrative Complex and marked the day as Black Teachers’ Day here on Wednesday.
Members of 5,178 Master Cadre Teachers’ Union raised slogans against the state government and said the government was anti-teachers as they had not fulfilled their promise.
Deep Raja, district president of the union, said the teachers had been appointed in November 2014 on a contract of three years and thereafter they were supposed to have been regularised.
“The contract was completed in November 2017, but the government has not regularised them so far, but has also stopped payment to many of them,” said Raja.
He said it was clearly mentioned in the appointment letters issued to them that the teachers would be regularised after the completion of three years of the contract.
The DPI (secondary) had also sent the cases to the District Education Officers (DEOs) in the districts, but nothing has been done.
“Many of us have been hoping to get regularised, but we are being exploited for the last nine months,” said Harminder Singh, vice-president of the union.
“Rather than celebrating the Teachers Day, we are being ill-treated,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Sikhya Provider Adhyapak Union also protested. They came wearing black clothes and wore black bands and raised slogans against the government.
They said during the election campaign, Capt Amarinder Singh had announced that if voted to power, they would be regularised. But he was doing the opposite of what he had promised in his poll manifesto as his government announces new diktats every other day to exploit them further.
One of the members of the union said during the recent directions, the holidays applicable to them were dismissed at the end of last month.
