Teachers stage sit-in at chowk

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, December 21

The tonsuring of heads by women vocational teachers would prove dearer to the state government, says Haryana Pradesh Congress president Kumari Selja who visited the protesting teachers here today.

Salja said the state government was discriminating against vocational teachers in matters of salary. The Congress raised the issue in the Assembly, but the government did nothing, she added.

The women vocational teachers have threatened that they would tonsure their heads if the state government failed to regularise their services.

Meanwhile, the teachers, who had been protesting for the past 58 days, took out a march and staged a sit-in at the Housing Board Chowk at 7.30 pm. Rajnish Sharma, Head of Vocational Education in the Education Department, told the protesters that a meeting would be held between them and the Education Minister on Wednesday. After this assurance, the teachers cleared the protest site.