Tuesday 14 January 2014

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.


“The government needs to regularise us at the earliest as the Election Code of Conduct could be implemented in the state anytime, and we fear that we may not be left in the lurch again,” said the general secretary.

These 7,654 teachers were recruited on a contractual basis in 2009 with an assurance by the government that they will be regularised by January 1, 2010.

“For the past five years, our fate is hanging in balance. The government has done wrong with us but we hope that we are regularised at the earliest,” said the general secretary.

To pursue this demand, the teachers had also climbed atop water tanks and only after getting assurance from by the government, they decided to cooperate.

The teachers, however, said out of the total 7,654 posts, about 5,000 were filled and rest were lying vacant but the government had faile to fill the remaining posts yet.

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