Teachers: Give regular jobs or face protest

Bathinda, July 10

Members of the TET-qualified Unemployed BEd Teachers’ Union submitted a memorandum of demands to Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh through Finance Minister Manpreet Badal today. Among other demands, they urged the government to regularise the services of teachers on a priority basis.

Yudhjit Singh, president of the union, along with other members, reached Badal village and submitted a memorandum of demands to the Finance Minister, urging him to take up the matter with the CM.

The union demanded that the age limit for government jobs be increased from 37 to 42 years. Yudhjit Singh said the state government should immediately recruit 15,000 BEd teachers and 12,000 ETT teachers. He said if their demands were not considered by the government, they would gherao Education Minister’s residence on July 17. — TNS