Guest faculty teachers protest, burn Punjab CM's effigy

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, December 6

Demanding job security, guest faculty assistant professors staged a protest against the Punjab Government here on Monday. They burnt effigies of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, Education Minister Pargat Singh, PPCC president Navjot Singh Sidhu and Education Secretary Krishan Kumar outside Government College for Girls in the city today. They opposed policies of the state government during protest.

Slamming the PPCC chief, Navjot Singh Sidhu, protesters said Sidhu was playing ‘fake’ politics by talking about Delhi’s guest faculty teachers.

However, guest faculty assistant professors, who had been protesting in government colleges of Punjab, said they were not being heard.

Falwinder Verma from Government College for Girls, Ludhiana, said they had been staging protests across Punjab for the last 35 days due to deadly policies adopted by the state government against professors working in government colleges for the last 15 to 20 years on guest-faculty, part-time or contract basis.

The protesting teachers said the government was giving false assurances instead of securing their jobs.

The guest faculty union members from Government College for Girls, Ludhiana, warned that they would intensify their struggle if the government did not give in writing about securing jobs of the guest faculty assistant professors.