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Government School Lecturer Union holds protest

Jalandhar, January 30
In protest against the misbehaviour of the police with members of the Government School Lecturer Union Punjab, during a dharna at Chandigarh, the lecturers in the district took mass causal leave and expressed their anger through a dharna and protest.

The Jalandhar unit of the union demanded that the headmasters’ DPC for the year be done after amendments in the 2004 service rules. They said if the headmasters were promoted as principals without the said amendments, then the dharna will be intensified.

No transfer of IAS, IPS officers for two yrs, says govt

New Delhi, January 30
Officers of the three premier services — IAS, IPS and IFoS — will spend a minimum of two years at each posting, say new rules formulated by the Centre to check political interference.

Any exception in the form of transfers or new appointments will only be made upon the recommendation of a civil services board.

Govt can’t meet teachers’ unjust demands: Maluka

Bathinda, January 29
As the teachers’ unions continue their protest to demand increase in salaries and regular jobs, Punjab Education Minister Sikander Singh Maluka said the state government was helpless.

Teachers recruited under the Centre’s schemes such as such as Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) have been protesting since long.

Punjab Government has started the process of transferring the Male Teachers from "Girls" Govt schools

Chandigarh, January 29: Punjab Government has started the process of transferring the Male Teachers from "Girls" Govt schools. According to DPI (Secondary) the Education department has issued the list of 411 "Male Teachers" of different districts in Punjab who will now teach in Boys and co-ed Govt. Schools. The

TET teachers, state govt at loggerheads

Ludhiana January 28
Around 17,000 Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) passed unemployed candidates have become bone of contention for the state government. The unemployed graduates, who passed the teacher eligibility test in recent years, are now organised under the TET Passed Unemployed Teachers Union.

Implementing the Right to Education Act 2009, the National Council for Teachers (NCTE) has made the Teacher Eligibility Test compulsory for the recruitment of the teachers in schools.

Lecturers’ body flays police action against guest faculty

Chandigarh, January 28
The Punjab College Teachers’ Association has condemned the police action against guest faculty in Bathinda yesterday.

Nearly 45 lecturers had gone to Bathinda to protest, demanding salaries from the state treasury, 10 per cent annual

Aided Schoolteachers to hold protest rally in Bathinda on 2 Feb

Amritsar, January 28
Demanding merger of aided schools, the Aided Schoolteachers and Other Employees Union, Punjab, has announced to hold a rally in Bathinda on February 2. Besides, they have not received salaries for the past four months. The union has been demanding merger of aided schools for over two years.

Guest faculty lecturers burn degrees Have been protesting since January 21, boycott lectures

Bathinda, January 28
Intensifying their protest against the state government, the guest faculty lecturers today burnt copies of their degrees as part of their protest outside the Government Rajindra College.

Shouting slogans against the state government, they derided the leaders for leaving the highly-qualified lecturers to take to the roads and stage protest.

Teachers’ arrest invites criticism, fellows seek release

Ludhiana, January 27
Representatives of the TET Pass Unemployed Teachers Union, Punjab, have alleged harassment at the hands of the police.

On Republic Day, teachers were arrested under Section 107-151 of the CrPC.  

Lecturers protest new guidelines for promotions

Patiala, January 27
Lecturers, who have been issued show-cause notices stripping them of their promotion, protested outside the DC’s office here today. The Education Department has sent notices to 623 teachers promoted in May 2012 to revert them to the master cadre.

Police round up guest faculty lecturers for blocking traffic Had met Dy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal; say meeting failed to yield tangible results; police register case

Bathinda, January 27
The police today rounded up several guest faculty lecturers from outside the District Administrative Complex in an attempt to stop them from blocking the road and bringing the traffic to a standstill.

The lecturers, however, claimed that they were being wrongfully d

Aided schools’ front Protesters use Punjabi boliyaan, target govt

Bathinda, January 27
‘Baari barsi khattan gaya si, khatt ke liyandi kheer, school bacha lo ji, vechan ge Badal te Sukhbir’, ‘Baari barsi khattan gaya si, khatt ke liyandi larri, kado ayugi saddi vardiyaan di waari’.

Members of the Unaided staff (Contractual) of Aided Schools Front, Punjab, chose such 'boliyaan' as part of a unique way to protest against the state government and commanding attention of the public towards their plight and the apathy of the government at a number of places in the city today as the Deputy CM was in the city today for holding a Sangat Darshan and to attend a function at an engineering college.

PU to hike fee of first year courses

Chandigarh, January 24
Panjab University has okayed a 10 per cent hike in the fee of first year courses from the next session.

The authorities will finalise the fee structure before the publishing of the prospectuses. Dean, University Instructions-cum-Registrar AK Bhandari said the fee of first year courses would be hiked by 10 per cent.

Protesting teachers face water cannons, lathis in Bathinda

Bathinda police used water guns and lathis to disrupt a protest by teachers under the banner of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) union at Bhokra village on the Goniana-Bathinda road on Friday. Most of the protesters were women and braved temperatures of less than 8°c and the police action. Teachers were also forcibly bundled in buses and lathicharged. "We were made to run in the fields and beaten like animals. One of our members also fainted," one of the protesters

Punjab Govt to recruit 256 doctors; Feb 10 last date to apply

The Punjab government will recruit 256 MBBS doctors by March-end and the responsibility for the recruitment has been given to the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC). While stating this health minister Surjit Kumar Jyanih admitted to the shortage of doctors in the district hospital. "The department tries to recruit doctors as per the need, but many doctors go for specialisation or PG studies, which ultimately lead to staff shortage

FM accepts demands of DC office employees; union to continue protest

Punjab finance minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa has assured the agitating members of the Punjab Deputy Commissioner Office Employees Union (PDCOEU) that he would accept all their demands related to the finance department. On Thursday, PDCOEU members from all districts of the state gathered in Sangrur to hold a protest rally and gherao finance minister's residence. However, they had cancelled the gherao programme after Dhindsa called them for a meeting and accepted their demands including disbursement of pending

Punjab DC office employees hold protest rally in Sangrur

Hundreds of employees working in deputy commissioner's offices in various districts of Punjab staged a protest rally here on Thursday to press their demands. The protesters had also planned to gherao finance minister Parminder ingh Dhindsa's residence. However, they canceelled the plan after Dhindsa invited them for a meeting at his. In response to call by the Punjab Deputy Commissioner Office Employees Union, the protesters gathered at the mini secretariat here and

Fill up 14,844 vacant posts of teachers by April 2015: HC to Maharashtra

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday asked the Maharashtra government to fill up 14,844 vacant posts of teachers in secondary and higher secondary aided schools by April 2015.

 The state government had banned recruitment of teachers in primary, secondary and higher secondary schools in 2012 after it came to light during an official survey that there were excess teachers in many educational institutions.

MBA/MMS CET to go online this year

PUNE/MUMBAI: The state MBA/MMS CET will go online this year, just like most of the entrance exams for B-schools.

The Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) has decided to take the plunge from the exam this March, considering most students are well-versed with online exams now.

But experts said students from the interiors of the state might be discouraged with the online mode of the exam.

CBSE board admit cards too go online

NAGPUR: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has declared that admit cards for std X and XII board exams will be available online only. From this year, the board won't be sending a hard copy of the admit cards, in an effort to take more and more of the process online.

From April, RBI will withdraw all pre-2005 notes

MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India has said that all currency notes issued before 2005 will be withdrawn from circulation - a move that is expected to check fakes and at the same time cause consternation among those dealing in cash. Although the central bank has desisted from declassifying these notes as legal tender there is fear that a logical conclusion would be to take these notes completely out of circulation.

HC seeks report on ‘education shops’ Asks Ludhiana Senior Superintendent of Police to probe functioning of Astha Education

Chandigarh, January 22
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked Ludhiana Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) to see if “shops selling education to gullible students are functioning in the area”.

Justice Rajesh Bindal has also sought a report from the SSP on the functioning of the Ludhiana-based Astha Education and the institutes, boards and universities through which it was imparting education to students in the area.

Govt trying to sabotage rally: ZP ETT Teachers’ union

Ludhiana, January 22
The ETT Teachers Union has accused the Punjab government of trying to sabotage the proposed “Nibhera Karo Rally” at Bathinda. Harbans Singh, district president of the union, said the government wanted to suppress their voice as they planned to expose the anti-education policies of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal at the rally.

Harbans Singh said in order to deter them, the Zila Parishad chairman at Bathinda, Gurpreet Singh Maluka, had inspected union leader Jagseeer Singh Sahota’s school.

20 govt middle schools shut Each of these had less than 20 students on rolls

SAS Nagar, January 22
To rectify the skewed teacher:taught ratio, the Education Department has transferred all six teachers employed for just 17 students of Government Middle School (GMS) at Todar Majri village on the city's outskirts. They have been shifted to the Government High School in the neighbouring Majatri village.

The school at Todar Majri, with an

PTU non-teaching staff to hold protest today

Kapurthala, January 22
The Universities and Education Board Employees Federation, Punjab and Chandigarh, will join a protest to be organised by the PTU Non –Teaching Employees Union on the university campus on Thursday.

The federation took the decision after the PTU Vice-Chancellor allegedly ignored a communication, in which the office-bearers of the federation had sought time from him for a meeting, to sort out the problems of the union.

Punjab initiates recruitment process of 8148 teachers-Maluka

Chandigarh, January 20: The Punjab Government has initiated the recruitment process of 8148 teachers across the state and is all set to complete the process by March this year. The Education & Language Minister, Punjab Sikander Singh Maluka said that Punjab Government was committed to provide education to every child and to meet this target the government has already updated the data of vacant posts in the schools. The

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Govt schoolteachers to face probe Were found absent from school by Chairman of Zila Parishad Gurpreet Singh Maluka

Bathinda, January 17
A teacher at a government elementary school, who was found absent from the school during a surprise checking conducted by Chairman of the Zila Parishad, Bathinda, has alleged that he is being targeted as he is the president of a teachers’ union.

Continuing surprise checking of schools, Chairman of the Zila Parishad, Gurpreet Singh Maluka, conducted a checking of the Government Elementary School in Ghandabanna on Thursday and found three out of five teachers absent from school.

School principals resent move to shift male staff

Muktsar, January 16
A delegation of government teachers today met Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at Tarmala village in the district and expressed their displeasure at an Education Department’s decision to shift male staff from girls’ schools.

The teachers told the chief minister that the decision had put the school principals in a tight spot.

Principals said it would become difficult for them to run the schools smoothly as there were certain task

Traffic education to be part of school syllabus: Maluka

Hoshiarpur, January 17
Even as the Hoshiarpur police have shown the way by involving hundreds of students and teachers of over 500 schools in the district in its massive traffic awareness campaign, Education Minister Sikander Singh Maluka today said the Education Department would include traffic education in the school curriculum.

Merger of 50 percent DA may soon be considered by Central Government –Sources

Sources close to the Central Government Employees Federations told that Merger of 50% DA will soon be considered by Central Government before the budget session of Parliament in February 2014. According to the sources, the central government is likely to consider the central government employees demand for merging of 50 % DA, for the reason that the DA will be crossing 100% level after January 2014.

Govt mulling 'national standards' for schools' performance

NEW DELHI: With much of the success of Right to Education (RTE) Act hinging on the learning outcome, the government is contemplating to formulate 'national standards for schools' performance to keep students and parents well informed.

"The initiative will bring out schools which are performing well and which are not doing that good so that parents are well informed," senior HRD Ministry official Brinda Swarup told a convention here.

On first day as DPI, officer shifted to another post Moves HC; says he is ineligible for the new post

Chandigarh, January 14
In an embarrassment for the Punjab Government, Gurpal Singh today moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court alleging that he was posted as the Punjab State University Textbook Board director on the date of his joining as the Director Public Instructions (Colleges) even though he was ineligible to hold the post.

In his petition placed before Justice Rajesh Bindal, Gurpal Singh asserted he did not possess the essential qualification of MA in Punjabi and he had done M.Sc. and M.Phil in Physics.

Aanganwari workers allege ‘wrong’ norms being followed in promotions

Bathinda, January 14
The Aanganwari workers, working under the office of additional deputy commissioner (Development), today alleged following of ‘wrong’ norms to fill the posts of around 286 Aanganwari supervisors on promotional basis.

In a representation to ADC (D) Sonali Giri, the Aanganwari workers stated that the ad hoc merit lis

PSEB all set to launch e-books The measure will address the problem of non-availability of books

Bathinda, January 14
The persistent issue raised by the students of government schools of non-availability of books in the new academic session is soon going to be addressed to a certain level as the Punjab School Education Board is all set to launch e-books for various subjects for Class XII at the beginning of the academic session 2014-15.

CAT 2013 results likely today

Chandigarh, January 13
The results of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 are expected to be announced tomorrow.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) aspirants across the city are on tenterhooks as they await the announcement of the Common Admission Test 2013 results.

Send teachers’ lists, DEOs told

Ludhiana, January 13
The DPI, Schools, Punjab, has asked the District Education Officers (DEOs) to send the lists of the 7,654 teachers who had to be regularised. The official letter has been put on the official website - ssapunjab.org.

The general secretary of 7,654 Sanjha Front Teachers’ Union, Punjab, Baljit Singh, said though waking up from the deep slumber, the state government finally decided to regularise the teachers. But in March, the Election Code of Conduct would be implemented.

Aided school teachers to protest on January 18

Patiala, January 13
Nearly 4,200 teachers working in government-aided schools will hold a rally at Rampura Phul in Bathinda district on January 18 in protest against the non-payment of salaries for the past three months.

The teachers will go on a mass casual leave on the day of protest.

Women teachers for government girl schools, decides govt

Ludhiana, January 12
Perturbed over the complaints being made by the wards and the girl students of facing “harassement” at the hands of male teachers in their respective schools from several districts, the state government has decided to put only female teachers in Government School for Girls in Punjab.

For this, the District Education Officers (DEOs) in Punjab have been asked to prepare a list of schools and depute female staff in girls’ schools and male staff in boys’ schools.

Master cadre union punjab raise promotion demand

Nawanshahr, January 12
Members of the Master Cadre Union, Punjab (MCUP), who have been issued show-cause notices stripping them of their promotion, submitted a memorandum of demands to Punjab Chief Minister’s Principal Secretary Sukhwinder Singh here today.

Singh assured them of convening a meeting with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal between January 19 and 22.

SSA teachers’ union convenes meeting

Bathinda, January 12
Members of the SSA/RMSA/CSS Teachers Union today convened a meeting here at the Teachers’ Home. The meeting was presided over by Beant Singh Phulewal.

During the meeting, the union distributed pamphlets mentioning their demands and the outlook of the government towards the scheme. “Similar meetings were held across the state today. At some places, the union members also burnt effigies of the state government as a mark of protest,” said Phulewal.

Aided school staff to hold rally at Rampura Phul on Jan 18

Jalandhar, January 12
Aided school employees will hold a protest rally at Rampura Phul on January 18. GS Chahal, state president, Aided School Teachers' and Other Employees' Union,declared that all the employees of aided schools would attend the rally by applying mass casual leave.

Only 872 aspirants pass PSTET-DEC 2013 Punjab to hold next PSTET within 6 month-Maluka

UGC rules out AICTE role in engineering college approvals

CHENNAI: The power to approve as well as affiliate engineering colleges would now be vested with the respective state technical universities, said Dr H Devaraj, vice-chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC).

Speaking at the Indian Science and Engineering Fair organized by the city-based Agni College of Technology in association with the Science Society of India (SSI) here on Saturday, Devaraj said that henceforth engineering colleges need not queue up before the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for

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Fake certificate controversy:Headmasters' assn refutes lecturers' allegations

Jalandhar, January 11
Brij Mohan, president, Government School Headmaster Association (Punjab), and general secretary Sukhvinder Singh said the claim of the the lecturers’ union that headmasters were appointed despite lacking in experience or proper degrees was false. They said they would take a legal recourse on the matter and will agitate on January 25, if their demands are not met.

Aided school Teachers union to hold protest rally on Jan 18

Amritsar, January 10
Angered over the non-deliverance of a promise made by Education Minister Sikandar Singh Maluka to arrange a meeting with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on January 8, the Aided School Teachers and Other Employees Union announced to hold a protest rally in Education Minister’s constituency at Rampura Phull in Bhatinda on January 18.

SSA teachers demand their regularisation

Jalandhar, January 10 With the AAP campaign gathering momentum in the region, the threats of the teachers' unions to the government have also begun to vary in shade. While they earlier said they would intensify protests, now they

CM gives nod to Rs 1,000 hike for Asha workers Panel to resolve issues of ETT teachers

CM makes teachers cool their heels Staff of aided schools to hold state-level protest rally on January 18

Ludhiana, January 9
Teachers of aided schools in Punjab, who had gone to Chandigarh to meet the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, returned to the city disappointed.

According to the sources, the meeting was fixed for 11 am yesterday, but the officials allegedly failed to convene the meeting with the Chief Minister till 8 pm.

Badal constitutes panel to solve issues of ETT teachers working under Zila Parishad

Chandigarh, Jan 9, 2014 (YP Bureau) Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today constituted a high level committee for solving all the issues pertaining to the ETT Teachers, working under Zila Parishads across the state, within a month. A decision to this effect was taken by the Chief Minister during a meeting with the representatives of the ETT teachers here at Punjab Bhawan this morning. Taking part in deliberations, the Chief Minister said that the committee

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25% EWS seats in Kendriya Vidyalayas this year

NEW DELHI: All 1,100 Kendriya Vidyalayas will start their admission process for Class I (entry level) from February 15. The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan will shortly bring out the admission notification as well as guidelines.

Over one lakh students will be admitted in Class I across all KVs, including around 20,000 students in 80 KVs in the national capital region. Delhi alone has 60 Kendriya Vidyalayas.

UT Computer teachers call off protest

Chandigarh, January 8
Computer teachers of the UT government schools called off their protest after DPI (S) Kamlesh Kumar assured them of taking up all their major demands, including regularisation of services, with the authorities concerned, here today.

The Education Department is also going to increase their salary by 25 per cent. There will also be no deduction of salary during any vacation and the contract will continue without any gap.

Govt teachers resent move to strip them of promotion

Faridkot, January 8
A decision of the Punjab Education Department to strip 448 government school teachers of their promotion has caused an uproar.

The Director, Education Department (Senior Secondary) had, on January 6, issued a list of 448 lecturers posted in government senior secondary schools in the state to be reverted to the master cadre. The Circle Education Officers (CEOs) of Faridkot, Nabha and Jalandhar have been asked to ensure that the lecturers appear in the Director’s office in Mohali on January 13 and 14 to express their objections before their reversion to the master cadre.

SIT to probe doctors' recruitment scam

The Punjab government on Wednesday notified the constitution of a special investigation team (SIT) under retired IPS officer MS Bali, with the Punjab vigilance bureau (VB chief director Suresh Arora as its member, for a thorough probe into the allegedly scandalous recruitment of doctors at the level of the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC). It was in

Jobless ETT protest on as talks with CM fail

Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal's talks with the unemployed elementary trained teachers (ETT) on Wednesday failed to reach a consensus as they rejected the offer for jobs at a paltry monthly salary of Rs. 2,000 on contractual basis for two years.


These 3,500-strong unemployed teachers had intensified their protest for jobs in 2010 after they got two-year ETT certificates for teaching in primary schools on the initiative of the state's education department.

High court wants new merit list in four weeks

Finding the 2000 selection of 3,206 junior basic trained (JBT) teachers by the Haryana government "vitiated, though not fully", the Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday ordered a fresh merit list within four weeks.


The move will terminate the services of undeserving teachers who were recruited when Om Prakash Chautala was chief minister. Pronouncing the judgment over some 13-year-old petitions challenging the selection, justice K Kannan made it clear that the appointment of at least 221 teachers, whose marks were reduced later but still their names put on the merit list, shall not be interfered with.

CBSE invites applications for national ICT awards for teachers

The Central Board of Secondary Education has asked all schools affiliated to it to send to the board nominations of their teachers for the National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Awards for Teachers. Schools will have to fill a prescribed form send it along with supporting documents to the directorate of education of their states/UTs/autonomous organisations through proper channel

Major reprieve for unemployed EGS\AIE teachers of the state

CHANDIGARH: In a major reprieve to the unemployed EGS/ AIE teachers of the state, the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today offered two years of gainful contractual employment to them in the Education department besides take up their case of exempting them from Teacher’s Eligibility Test (TET) with the Union government. Taking part in

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HC verdict on Haryana JBT selections today

The Punjab and Haryana high court will on Wednesday pronounce its judgment on a bunch of nearly 80 petitions challenging the selection of 3,206 junior basic trained (JBT) teachers by the Haryana government in 2000 during the-then regime of Om Prakash Chautala as chief minister. In January last year, the special CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) court at Rohni, New Delhi, had convicted Om Prakash Chautala; his son, Ajay Chautala; IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officers Vidya Dhar and Sanjiv Kumar; and 51 other of corruption in the same case and sentenced them. The CBI had found the selection process tainted. However, the selected teachers are still in service. The petitioners, deprived of selection, had sought removal of 1,577 allegedly tainted JBT teachers, besides own appointment in place. The petitioners had submitted that the marks of 1,577 teachers were increased to illegally accommodate them. On January 23 last year, the high court had ordered to issue notices to all 3

Punjab has no employment policy, says info procured by RTI activist

As per the information procured by RTI activist advocate Dinesh Chadha under the Right to Information Act, Punjab government has no employment policy to solve issues of unemployment. In response to Chadha's inquiry, the director of the Department of Employment Generation and Training, Punjab, has

Poor strength of students:Schools to be merged

Ludhiana, January 7
Two middle schools in the district having less than 20 students are going to be merged with the nearby high schools. On the instructions issued by the Education Department, Gangagir School at Manuke village and Government Middle School, Malodaad, will soon be merged with the nearby government high schools.

Punjab Computer teachers to meet CM today

Jalandhar, January 7
The state unit of the Computer Teachers Union will be meeting Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on January 8 for their long pending demands. President of the district unit of the union said, “The teachers should be regularised to relieve them of the troubles they are undergoing everyday.

A panel meeting with Education Minister Sikander Singh Maluka had led to hopes that computer teachers will be regularised soon.”

7654 Teachers’ union prepares to stage protests Accuses state government of stepping back from its promise

Bathinda, January 7
Members of the 7654 Sanjha Front Teachers Union, Punjab, today participated in a meeting convened at the Teachers’ Home here under the leadership of district president of the union, Shapinder Singh Brar.

Union members were assigned duties for dharna that the union is planning to organise in Mohali on January 11. Addressing the gathering, leaders of the union stated that despite the fact that the government had not paid the salaries of the teachers for the past three years, it was still retracting from its assurance that the jobs of the teachers will be regularised from April 2014.

Inter-school sports meet in February-Maluka

Chandigarh Education and Languages Minister Sikander Singh Maluka on Tuesday announced a state-level tournament for students of all primary schools in the state at Jalandhar from February 21 to 23. He said the state government will promote sports in all the government schools across the state from the primary level by organising zonal and state-level tournaments. The Education

Punjab Education Dept to create awareness about voting system

Jalandhar Ahead of National Voters Day on January 25, the district Education Department has initiated a campaign and started organising various competitions to create awareness among the students about voting system in India. Under the

Punjab invites applications for posts of Sr Residents in Govt Medical Colleges

Chandigarh, January 6: For the first time in Punjab positions of Senior Residents in Government Medical College, Patiala & Amritsar have been opened up for fresh Post Graduate students. Disclosing this here today, Anil Joshi, Medical Education and Research Minister said that

UPSC declares result of written Examination of IES/ISS, 2013

New Delhi, January 6: On the basis of result of the written part of the Indian Economic Service/ Indian Statistical Service Examination, 2013 held by the Union Public Service Commission in November, 2013, the candidates as per the list of Roll Numbers have qualified for Interview/Personality Test:--
The candidature of th

Punjab to fill vacancies of doctors in next 18 months: Jyani

With a view to providing better health services in government hospitals in the state, the Punjab government has decided to fill the vacant posts of doctors in the next one-and-a-half years. This was disclosed by Punjab health and family welfare minister Surjit Kumar Jyani on Monday after the inauguration of

3 months on, 4,200 teachers sans salary

Amritsar, January 6
“Being a single earning hand in my family, I am passing through a state of severe financial crunch. The festive period passed without any celebrations,” lamented a teacher, NN Saini.

Similar is the fate of as many as 4,200 employees working in 484 aided-schools in the state as they have been working

Punjab Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU) to hold protest on Jan 9, 14

Jalandhar, January 6
Secretary of the local unit of the Punjab Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU) Dr Tejinder Virli today said all the teachers of the Guru Nanak Dev University would miss their fourth and fifth periods and participate in strikes in their respective colleges on January 9 and 14.

These strikes would be conducted against Dr Daljit Singh, principal of the Khalsa College, Amritsar, against his move to disregard the management's agreement with the teachers' union by filing a case to trouble teachers of the college.

ETT teachers stage protest

Bathinda, January 6
In protest against the “politically-motivated” transfer of teacher Daulat Singh, ETT teachers employed with the schools under the Panchayati Raj assembled at the Zila Parishad office here today.

The teachers, under the leadership of their district president Gurmukh Singh Nathana and general secretary Yamande

UT Computer teachers meet Pawan Bansal

Chandigarh, January 5
Computer teachers today called on Chandigarh MP Pawan Kumar Bansal to discuss their demands.

The teachers said the MP assured them of taking up their matter for increment in salary as well as regularisation of their services according to the Punjab Policy. He also told the teachers that no one could expel them from their current job.

AIPMT:CBSE not to upload answer keys

Chandigarh, January 5
The CBSE will not upload the answer keys for the next All-India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) as well. Last year’s undergraduate medical entrance exam had as many as seven ambiguous questions, following which students and teachers demanded uploading of the answer keys before the declaration of results to confirm their answers.

While the board uploaded the OMR sheets of the candidates, it did not upload the answer keys.

Protest bid by teachers foiled Police ensure CM’s sangat darshan goes on smoothly; teachers rounded up, then let off

Bathinda, January 5
Making sure that the sangat darshan by the Chief Minister of Punjab, held in the city today, met with no roadblocks, the police showed alacrity and arrested as many as 60 teachers, all members of the Unaided Teachers of Aided Schools Front, Punjab, who were assembling near the Government Rajindra College here today to participate in a state-level demonstration planned by the union.

7654 Teachers union to hold rally in Mohali on January 11

Amritsar, January 5
With a view to impress upon the state government to accept its long pending demands the district unit of the Sanjha Front Teachers Union today announced that they would hold a state-level rally in Mohali on January 11.

District president of the union Gurpreet Singh Verka sought regularisation of contractual teachers.

Cancel food inspector test, says Khaira

Jalandhar, January 5
Sukhpal Khaira, PPCC spokesman, has demanded scrapping of the test held for the selection of 461 food supply inspectors. Addressing a press conference here today, Khaira said bypassing the PPSC, the Food and Civil Supplies Department had entrusted the recruitment process to Panjab University.

GNDU not to refund fees if students leave without attending a single class

College teachers against UGC’s CAS provision

Teachers without salary for 4 months

Sahnewal, January 4
As many as 200 government employees, who were promoted from clerical posts to master cadre in September last year, are still to be allotted permanent stations.

“This is height of insensibility on the part of the Education Department. All our festivities have ended up in a fiasco. As a single earning hand of the family, I am passing through a state of severe financial penury. Ours had been a black Diwali and an equally black new year,” said a teacher, who had been promoted from clerical post to the master cadre.

263 schools under scanner, students’ future uncertain

Ludhiana, January 4
The fate of as many as 263 schools hang in balance as the Punjab School Education Board has till date not given the information about the inspections that has to be conducted again. These schools are located in less than 200 yards in Punjab, while the board has given its continuation nod to the schools, located in over 201 yards. In Ludhiana, there are about 65 such schools which await the inspection to be conducted at the earliest.

HC breather for MBBS aspirants in Punjab

Chandigarh, January 4
Students with Punjab domicile, who have passed their 10+2 from schools outside the state, are eligible for admission to medical colleges in the state, at least for the time being.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has termed as unreasonable and arbitrary a clause in the admission notification of June last year, which prevented students from seeking admission to medical colleges in the state on the ground that they have not passed the 10+2 qualifying ex

Government to amend AICTE Act

NEW DELHI: After much delay, the government has decided to amend the All Indian Council of Technical Education (AICTE) Act to undo a Supreme Court ruling which had stripped the council of its powers to approve institutes offering technical courses.

 An interim arrangement would be put in place till then where AICTE would set standards for technical institutes and universities would provide the affiliation. The institutes on their part would have to get themselves assessed by the National Board of Accreditation.

UT Education Dept rejects computer teachers' claim

Chandigarh, January 3
The UT Education Department today clarified that the major claim made by computer teachers, who are protesting for the past 10 days, is not justified.

In a press statement issued today, the department said the claim of the computer teachers that the Punjab rules were applicable to them was not accurate. They were not UT employees, and therefore, the Punjab Civil Services rules were not applicable to them.

Teachers knock DPI’s door

Chandigarh, January 3
Today, a delegation of the Joint Action Committee of teachers, Chandigarh, met Kamlesh Kumar, DPI (Schools), to discuss its various long-pending demands.

The demands included promotion of all cadres of teachers, including JBT and TGT, and streamlining of purchase of school uniform for the session 2014-15.

30,000 apply for 120 posts in various govt depts advertised by the PPSC

Patiala, January 3
More than 30,000 applications have been received for 120 posts in various government departments advertised by the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) on December 9.

Among the posts are 23 of Executive Magistrate, 10 Deputy Superintendent of Police, 16 Deputy Superintendent of Jail, 52 Excise and Taxation Officer, six Tehsildar, 11 Block Development and Panchayat Officer and two Labour and Conciliation Officer.

RTE behind poor state of education, says Maluka

Bathinda, January 3
Education Minister Sikander Singh Maluka today accused the Centre, a sub-judice case and the Right To Education Act for the poor state of education in the state.He was in the city to address SAD workers during the bhog of an akhand path at Haji Ratan Gurdwara. He said, “The Centre has been rolling out policies and schemes for the entire nation while it should be the prerogative of the state.”

Director General of School Education (DGSE) conducted a surprise checking in 70 schools of Batinda district

Bathinda, January 3
Following the orders of the Chief Minister, the Director General of School Education (DGSE) today conducted a surprise checking of several government middle and senior secondary schools.

Teams, constituted and working under the guidance of DGSE Kumar Rahul, checked 70 schools in the district today. The primary purpose of this checking was to ensure the presence of teachers in the schools and also take stock of the facilities being extended to the students.

Central Govt nod to 58 new medical colleges

New Delhi, Jan 3,2014: The government Thursday cleared a proposal to set up 58 new medical colleges in states with central assistance as well as upgradation of district hospitals. This will lead to the creation of 5,800 more MBBS seats.

Contractual employees may get all benefits like regular govt employees

Cong slams punjab govt for issuing notices to Lecturers

Nawanshahr, January 2
Congress spokesperson Sukhpal Singh Khaira has condemned the Punjab Government for issuing show-cause notices to lecturers promoted in May 2012. The notices are part of the government’s proposed move to revert the promotions to cover up its “misdeeds”.

PSEB released datesheet of 10th & +2 classes

Middle schools with up to 45 students to go

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DA from January 2014 may touch 101%

DA from January 2014 may touch 101%
January 1, 2014

DA from January 2014 may touch 101% if CPI-IW crosses 245 in Dec 2013

We have All India Consumer price index (Industrial Workers from January 2013 to November 2013 in hand now as

Counselling to allocate depts to new officers

UT Computer teachers seek job stability, better salary

Chandigarh, January 1
The three-month-long contract of computer teachers and data entry operators ended yesterday. Though the contract will be renewed further, the computer teachers said this frequent system of revision of contract was no more acceptable to them.
Protesting against the Education Department for the past one week, they demanded job stability and better salary.
Poonam Taprian, president of the Chandigarh Computer Teachers Union, said all computers teachers and data entry operators working in government

ETT teachers’ protest going strong

Barnala, January 1
Braving cold, nearly 10 members of the EGS (ETT) Unemployed Teachers’ Union are still atop the overhead water works at Cheema village near here in protest against the Punjab Government.
The ETT (Elementary Teacher Training) teachers’ agitation that entered the 17th day today is for regular appointments. The protesters have refused to come down till their demand is accepted. They are scheduled to meet CM Parkash Singh Badal for January 8.

Maximum tenure for college principals now 10 yrs This will help fill vacancies in several colleges in the state

Chandigarh, January 1
The Punjab Government has in a communication to all universities in the state said that a principal of government college or aided college could have a maximum tenure of 10 years in office. As of now, the maximum tenure is five years. A number of colleges in the state are without principals.
The matter would get ratification only after it is taken up by university bodies such as the Senate or the Syndicate.

Efforts on to implement RTE Act effectively

Efforts are on to implement Right to Education Act effectively in district schools, said the district project coordinator of the act Anil Matharoo.

Talking to Hindustan Times, Anil Matharoo, district coordinator said, “We want to implement the act effectively in government schools and for that we need to maintain the teacher pupil ratio in government schools. For which we have sent the data to the state so that they can have an idea about how many teachers are required in government schools.”

Railway to recruit 26000 employees

Fake degrees scam:Punjab to review degrees of 1 lakh teachers

CBSE 10th/12th Examination Date Sheet 2014

CBSE 12th Class Date Sheet 2014 CBSE Date Sheet 2014 for class 12th 

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) 10th and 12th exam date sheet 2014 is declared by the officials on the main portal www.cbse.nic.in. All the candidates belongs to CBSE board are eagerly waiting to download CBSE 10th/12th Date sheet 2014 in order to prepare the schedule for preparation. This is a good news for them that CBSE Date sheet 2014 is out and it is displayed here so candidates can easily get and check out the CBSE time table 2014 from here only.

Download CBSE Date Sheet : CLASS 10th  Class 12th

HC tells MSFC to implement Sixth Pay Commission wages

The Bombay High Court has asked the loss-making Maharashtra State Financial Corporation to implement the Sixth Pay Commission pay scales for its staff without waiting for the state government's approval.

Since the financial corporation is an autonomous body, having power to determine the conditions of appointment and services as also the remuneration which is payable to its employees, it is not necessary for the Board of Directors to obtain prior approval of the state government, said Justices M S Sonak and V M Kanade in a recent order.

TN govt announces wage hike for electricity board employees

Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO), the power generation and distribution arm of Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, has announced a salary hike for their employees and workers. In a statement, which was issued today, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said that the wage agreement between the employees, workers and TANGEDCO had come to an end on

J&K education ministry promotes over 1500 lecturers

JAMMU: Over 1500 lecturers have been promoted to the post of senior lecturers by the Jammu and Kashmir education ministry, education ministry officials said on Wednesday.

School education department has promoted 1,512 lecturers of various disciplines as senior lecturers on the eve of New Year 2014, they said.

Govt schools await DGSE order, to start pre-boards from next week

The government school heads in the district are starting the pre-board examination of Class 10 and 12 from next week, however, till now the schools have received no direction from director general school education (DGSE) office to conduct the examination. Last year, to bring uniformity in the examination system for Classes 9 to 12, the DGSE office had sent

Lecturers Seniority list: Panic grips lecturers as govt puts them on notice

Nawanshahr, December 31
Panic and resentment prevails among school lecturers promoted in May last year as the state education department has started sending show-cause notices as part of its proposed move to revert those whose names did not figure in the fresh seniority lists of master cadre. Discrepancies had been found in some of the lecturers' cases, which were cleared by the Department Promotion Committee in December 2011. The affected school lecturers have started exploring legal remedy against the proposed move of the state government.

Army recruitment from January 14 to 21 at Amritsar

Amritsar, December 31
An Army recruitment rally will be organised at Khasa Cantonment from January 14 to 21. Aspirants from Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Gurdaspur and Pathankot district are eligible to participate in the rally.

Punjab Govt denies extension to 5 of 32 re-employed PCS officers

Jalandhar, December 31
It being the last day of contract period of 32 retired, reappointed PCS (Punjab Civil Service) officers, five of them have been denied extension in service.

Unlike one-year extension that these officers had been granted earlier, the remaining 27 have got only six-month extension with clear orders that this would be their last extension.