Chandigarh, December 30
The local police today arrested 51 computer teachers, including 32 female teachers, from Sector 24 under preventive measures ahead of Prime Minister’s visit. The computer teachers were protesting for the fulfilment of their pending demands for past many days in the city.
Today, they wanted to meet the PM at Mullanpur with their list of demands. The police, however, arrested them in Sector 24 at around 11.30 am, when they tried to move towards Mullanpur.
The local administration had also imposed Section 144 of the CrPC today, under which taking out rallies, holding protests, raising slogans and assembly of five or more persons were banned.
Station house officer of the Sector 17 police station Dilsher Singh Chandel said the teachers were later produced before the magistrate and bailed out after 6 pm.
The president of UT Cadre Educational Employee Union, Swarn Singh Kamboj, was among the computer teachers and data-entry operators arrested.
Teachers said their arrest was unjustified. President of Chandigarh Computer Teachers’ Union Poonam Taprian said they were being exploited. Taprian said they got lesser salaries. “Even our contracts are being revised every two months,” said the office-bearer.
She said the computer teachers wanted a hike in salary on a par with other contractual teachers and a written assurance for the regularisation of their services as per the Punjab Government Service Rules.
Meanwhile, their daylong hunger strike entered seventh day at Masjid Ground in Sector 20. Every day, five teachers sit on hunger strike from 9 am to 6 pm.
The local police today arrested 51 computer teachers, including 32 female teachers, from Sector 24 under preventive measures ahead of Prime Minister’s visit. The computer teachers were protesting for the fulfilment of their pending demands for past many days in the city.
Today, they wanted to meet the PM at Mullanpur with their list of demands. The police, however, arrested them in Sector 24 at around 11.30 am, when they tried to move towards Mullanpur.
The local administration had also imposed Section 144 of the CrPC today, under which taking out rallies, holding protests, raising slogans and assembly of five or more persons were banned.
Station house officer of the Sector 17 police station Dilsher Singh Chandel said the teachers were later produced before the magistrate and bailed out after 6 pm.
The president of UT Cadre Educational Employee Union, Swarn Singh Kamboj, was among the computer teachers and data-entry operators arrested.
Teachers said their arrest was unjustified. President of Chandigarh Computer Teachers’ Union Poonam Taprian said they were being exploited. Taprian said they got lesser salaries. “Even our contracts are being revised every two months,” said the office-bearer.
She said the computer teachers wanted a hike in salary on a par with other contractual teachers and a written assurance for the regularisation of their services as per the Punjab Government Service Rules.
Meanwhile, their daylong hunger strike entered seventh day at Masjid Ground in Sector 20. Every day, five teachers sit on hunger strike from 9 am to 6 pm.
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