Teachers shift dharna from NH to roadside

Tribune News Service

Yamunanagar, January 4

After holding a meeting with the Haryana Education Minister, Kanwar Pal Gujjar, and senior officers of the Education Department in Chandigarh on Monday in connection with their demands, guest teachers have shifted their dharna from the Ponta Sahib national highway in Jagadhri to the roadside there.

With the shifting of the dharna place, the traffic has resumed on both sides on the national highway.

The guest teachers’ association has decided that now five teachers from one district of the state will come here every day and sit on dharna.

The dharna will continue until the letter of their demands, which has been accepted, is issued and the pending demands are met.

The guest teachers have been sitting on a state-level dharna in Jagadhri since December 25 in support of their demands.

Five guest teachers Ramesh Chahal, Pradeep Gill, Nitin Lamba, Raj Kumar and Surinder Kumar sat on the dharna today.

Nitin Lamba, chief organising secretary of the Guest Teachers Sangrash Samiti said that a meeting had taken place among Haryana Education Minister, senior officers of the Education Department and a delegation of guest teachers in Chandigarh, yesterday. “Some of our demands were accepted. Until, the letter of these accepted demands is given and the rest pending demands are met, our dharna will continue,” said Nitin Lamba. Today, the traffic has also resumed on both sides of the national highway.