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Date – 18th Jun 2021

Temporary teachers demanding regularization of jobs and lift in salary on Thursday continued with their protest outside the education board building in Mohali whilst they held meetings with Minister Vijay Inder Singla along with secretary-level officers over the issues they are facing. During the meeting with Education Singla, representatives of the protesting teachers demanded regularization of their jobs and a rise in their salary to Rs 40,000 per month.

Under the banner of the Temporary Teachers' Union, quite 500 teachers on Wednesday had laid siege to the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) building to press the Congress-led government to simply accept their demands.

They demanded that 13,000 temporary teachers who had been teaching for the last several years within the state should be regularized with no condition.

Protesting teachers rued that they were getting just Rs 6,000 while slamming Chief Minister Amarinder Singh for not addressing their issues within the past four-and-half years.

Jujhar Singh, one of the protesting teacher said during the meetings with the education minister and therefore the secretary, their representatives demanded that the govt should give priority to them in appointments to eight,393 posts of Nursery Teachers' Training (NTT), which are advertised by the government.

 Mr.Singh also said that teachers are demanding relaxation in criteria, including more marks for experience for the choice of candidates,

He further said after the meeting with the education secretary, it had been decided to suspend the exam for NTT posts, which was scheduled for June 27, 2021.

Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party said the government should accept the demands of the protesting teachers.

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