Amid ongoing protests by farmers in opposition to the three central agri legal guidelines, a recent pakka morcha (agitation) has begun in Punjab, with unemployed lecturers staging an indefinite sit-in outdoors the residence of state Education Minister Vijayinder Singla in Sangrur.
The morcha was launched on December 31 by the unemployed BEd lecturers union, which additionally represents those that have cleared the instructor eligibility take a look at (TET) performed by Punjab authorities. Among others, the morcha has members from TET Pass Unemployed Teachers Union, All India DPI Teachers Union, PTI Teachers Union Punjab, Unemployed Art and Crafts Teachers Union, and Unemployed Multipurpose Health Worker Union.
The unions have fashioned an umbrella physique naming it the United Teachers’ Union.
Sukhwinder Dhilwan, a union chief, stated, “We have started our pakka morcha outside the house of Education Minister as Punjab government neither gave us jobs nor the unemployment allowance. There are over 35,000 unemployed TET-pass BEd teachers in Punjab.”
“The separate unions had been protesting for their demands at different platforms. Taking a lesson from the farmers’ struggle, all the unemployed teachers’ unions have now come on a united platform,” Dhilwan stated, including they’d additionally been a part of farmers’ protests in Punjab and at Delhi border.
Recently, the Punjab authorities additionally performed exams to recruit greater than 370 grasp cadre lecturers’. Dhilwan claimed that numerous posts are vacant however authorities had marketed to fill only some seats. Against the submit of 100 Punjabi and Hindi lecturers, a complete of 21,000 candidates had appeared.
As a part of the protest, lecturers are sleeping on the street. They deliver from the langar at close by gurdwaras whereas tea is being served by members of the unions on a rotation foundation.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Sangrur, Viveksheel Soni stated in the course of the daytime “40-50 members stage dharna while only 10-15 stay” there at night time.
“We have told them not to organise dharna like this and that too in this harsh weather. The minister is not in town. We will organise te union leaders’ meeting the minister whenever he returns. I am sure, this dharna will be lifted soon,” the SSP stated.
