3 teachers on contract climb atop overhead water tank

Sushil Goyal

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Sangrur, March 4

Demanding regularisation of their services and joining letters as a regular teacher, three female members of “10 Saal Service Puri Kar Chuke Kache Adhyapak Union Punjab” today climbed atop overhead water works near main bus stand here. They say they will not climb down from the overhead water works if they do not get joining letters as a regular teacher.

Protest by members across state

Gurjit Kaur from Ludhiana, Sukhjit Kaur and Manjit Kaur, both from Mansa, climbed atop an overhead water tank. Besides these three teachers, some members of the union from Bathinda, Patiala, Mansa, Fazilka, Moga and Ludhiana districts have been staging a dharna near the waterworks for regularisation of their jobs.

The female members, who are atop overhead water works, are Gurjit Kaur from Ludhiana, and Sukhjit Kaur and Manjit Kaur, both from Mansa. Besides these three female members, some members from Bathinda, Patiala, Mansa, Fazilka, Moga and Ludhiana districts, have been staging a dharna near the water works to get their demand fulfilled.

State president of the union Jaspal Singh said that services of about 12,700 Kache Adhyapaks (teachers) had already been regularised by the Punjab Government while services of about 130 teachers were yet to be regularised. He said they had met Education Minister four times in the past some months but except getting “false assurance” they had achieved nothing so far. The ‘kache adhyapaks’ had been getting a meager salary of Rs 6,000 per month, he added.

He said the Punjab Government had made a policy to regular the services of Kache Adhyapaks with 10 years’ service and gave orders of regular service to the teachers who had completed 10 years’ of service up to June 16, 2023, but they had completed their 10 years’ service till August 31, 2023. So they had been demanding for the past six months to regularise their services on the pattern of regularisation of 12,700 teachers, but to no avail so far, he added.

Jaspal added that the protesting teachers would climb down from atop overhead water works only after getting joining letters as a regular teacher.