Tuesday 10 December 2013

Demand for DA Teacher unions to stage protest on Dec 12

Bathinda, December 9
Members of the Democratic Teachers Front (DTF), BEd Teachers’ Front, SSA-RMSA Union, ETT Teachers’ Union and 7,654 Teachers’ Union have announced that they would hold a massive protest in Bathinda on December 12 and in Rampura Phul on December 13.

In a press statement issued here today, all the union members unanimously decided to get together to raise their voice against the state government by organising tehsil-level dharnas.


The unions have already started staging protests at tehsil-levels in Moga, Muktsar, Faridkot and Bathinda. They stated that the employees of the state government were scheduled to get 10 per cent dearness allowance starting July 2013 but the state government was yet to start releasing the same. They added that the delay in release of the DA was the problem of not only the teachers employed in the state education department but employees working in other state departments as well.

They added that the state government will have to heed their demands and regularise the jobs of the teachers employed under the SSA-RMSA and release the salaries of 19 months of the teachers employed under the CSS scheme.

They also demanded that the 5,752 schools shifted from under the Education Department to Zila Parishad be brought back under the state education department.

They added that the government should give its nod for promoting the ETT-qualified teachers as they have not been promoted in the last three years.

Pointing out that the state government had shown laxity in seriously considering the case of promotions in the master, lecturer, head master and other cadres, the teachers union demanded that the pending promotion cases should also be reopened and promotion of worthy candidates be approved.

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