Teachers wear black badges to school

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, November 10

Members of the SSA-RMSA Teachers Union today wore black badges to schools to protest against non-payment of salaries for the past two months. They also announced that in the coming days, the union would also chalk out a plan to intensify its stir against the government.

District president of the union, Beant Singh Phulwal said the teachers recruited under the “Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan” and “Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyaan” had been waiting for regularisation of their jobs for the past seven years. He further added that while the state education department is yet to heed to their demands, now the revenue department had begun delaying their salaries.

Union members stated that the teachers wore black badges on work to symbolise how the state government had turned the festival of lights into darkness for these teachers by not paying them salaries for the past two months.

District press secretary of the union Amandeep Sidhu said teachers in government schools in Bhucho Mandi, Raiyaan, Burj Gill, Aklia, Kotshamir, Baluana and Shekhu participated in today’s protest.