Teachers raise issues at PCCTU online meet

Lovleen Bains

Doraha, January 21

Around 102 professors from Ludhiana district attended an online meeting held through Zoom, a mobile app, organised by the Ludhiana unit of the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers’ Union (PCCTU) to address problems of various college professors of the district.

The meeting was chaired by PCCTU president Vinay Sofat and general secretary Prof Sukhdev Randhawa. It was conducted by PCCTU Ludhiana district president Kuldeep Batta.

Teachers from colleges attended the meeting and shared their problems such as corruption, exploitation by college managements, failure to send regular claims by colleges, non-payment of leave encashment, failure to give salaries and forced removal from jobs with union members.

Dr Sofat briefed about the union’s road map on all issues. “The PCCTU leadership updated the cadre about the issues and listened to their grievances. We tried to update and guided them how to proceed further. Soon, we are going to take the issue to the minister and the Secretary, Higher Education,” he said.

He said all should understand that there was no need to pay for any of their legitimate work in the DPI office.

“Pending cases of teachers at the DPI office have to be cleared within a stipulated period of time. It has been months together that the cases put forth by the teachers have been lying unattended due to reasons best known to the department. In our meeting with the minster, we will take assurance of the maximum time involved in clearing a particular case so that the teachers should not be harassed by making visits to the office time and again,” Sofat said. — TNS