In protest mode: SSA union to give their degrees to Edu Minister

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, October 8

Members of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Daftari Mulazim Union are protesting against the government for long and demanding regularisation.

On Thursday, the members announced that if the Education Minister feels that they were not important enough to get regularised, then they will submit their degrees to him on October 11.

Ashish Julaha, one of the active members of the union, said teachers appointed under the SSA in 2018 were regularised by the government, but the non-teaching staff that was appointed much earlier was still working on contractual basis, which was not right on the part of the government.

They have been demanding regularisation for long. They said nearly a 1,000 employees in Punjab had been working on contractual basis and were getting meagre salaries.

The members said not regularising them was a clear indication that the department doesn’t take them seriously which is why they would collect degrees from every employee and give these to the minister.

The protesters said most of the employees were getting wages ranging from Rs4,000 to Rs15,000, which was not acceptable. “Is it even possible to run families with such meagre income?” they asked.