1000’s of lecturers underneath the banner of the federal government lecturers union (GTU), Punjab, staged a protest at Vidya Bhawan, Mohali on Tuesday over varied teacher- and student-related calls for earlier than marching in the direction of the Punjab chief minister’s residence in Chandigarh.
Led by state president Sukhwinder Singh Chahal and normal secretary Gurbinder Singh Saskaur, the protesters alleged that no official got here ahead to obtain their memorandum. The march was stopped by Punjab and Chandigarh Police on the Mohali-UT border, the place lecturers held a sit-in and raised slogans towards the federal government.
The union accused each the Centre and the Punjab authorities of weakening public schooling, alleging that implementation of the Nationwide Training Coverage (NEP) 2020 was leaving faculties understaffed. It additionally criticised makes an attempt to delink dearness allowance (DA) from the Central authorities sample and expressed concern over repeated examination paper leaks, claiming these have been jeopardising the way forward for college students.
Among the many key calls for raised have been restoration of the outdated pension scheme (OPS), withdrawal of obligatory trainer eligibility check (TET) situations, completion of pending promotions throughout educating cadres, regularisation of contractual lecturers, launch of wage revision arrears and pending DA instalments, and exemption of lecturers from non-academic duties resembling sales space stage officers (BLOs) work and Census surveys.
The protest ended after the administration offered written assurance of a gathering with the schooling division on June 9 and the cupboard sub-committee on June 23.
