Teachers protest against ‘orders’ to admit pre-primary students

Our Correspondent

Tarn Taran, May 17

Teachers of different government schools under the banner of the Sanjha Adhyapak Morcha on Monday held a protest in front of the Block Elementary Office, Naushehra Pannuan, against the verbal orders of the Punjab Education Department to the Principals of Government Secondary Schools to admit pre-primary students in their respective schools on their own.

The protesting teachers burnt an effigy of the department for its anti-teacher policies.

Addressing on the occasion, Nachhattar Singh, Sarabjit Warrian, Kuljit Kaur, Paramjit Kaur and others said that the move of the department was a threat to the existence of Government Primary Schools as the department wanted to initiate its move from the pre-primary classes to eliminate the primary section.

They laid stress on other demands and condemned the department for abolishing a number of other posts from the primary and secondary sections.