The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday visited the dharna of the raw teachers in front of the Punjab School Education Board in Mohali and the unemployed PTI teachers at the overhead water tank in Sohana and listened to their demands seriously. Kejriwal assured the protesting teachers that with the formation of the AAP government in Punjab, the raw teachers would be regularised, so that an atmosphere of good education could be created in the state.
Arvind Kejriwal arrived in Mohali on Saturday morning from Delhi to meet the protesting teachers, especially in support of these unemployed teachers.
Kejriwal met the raw teachers who had been on dharna for 165 days in front of the Punjab School Education Board and listened to their problems. Addressing the teachers, Kejriwal said, “The Channi government has put up hoardings at various places for regularizing 36,000 raw employees, but neither the teachers nor hundreds and thousands of raw and outsourced employees of sanitation and other departments were regularized.”
Kejriwal said that the teachers should be in the classroom and not on dharnas and tanks. He said that raw teachers serving in government schools for 10-20 years were being paid only Rs 6,000 per month in Punjab, which was a shame for the Punjab government and the society as a whole. He appealed to all the raw and permanent teachers of Punjab and the unemployed teachers and other unemployed youth along with the people of Punjab sitting on dharnas-protests to give a chance to the Aam Aadmi Party; as the Congress, BJP and the Badals have been repeatedly tested. Kejriwal said that with the formation of the Aam Aadmi Party government in 2022, revolutionary reforms would be carried out in the government schools and education system of Punjab as shown in Delhi.
The AAP national convener then met the unemployed PTI teachers who had been on dharna atop an overhead water tank near Sohana for 47 days and appealed to the protesters to get down from the tank. Kejriwal appealed to a newly-married unemployed teacher along with teachers who had been on the tank for 47 days, to come down and not to risk their lives for the present deaf government. He assured them that their problems would be solved with the formation of the AAP government. Arvind Kejriwal appealed to the Channi government of Punjab to immediately release the merit list of the recruitment process as per the demand of the unemployed PTI teachers and also to issue a waiting list with each merit list.
