Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday said that it was a disgrace that hundreds of “professionally qualified” teachers in Punjab were protesting for their legitimate rights and were forced to ascending water reservoirs on the ‘Teachers Day’ for their legitimate rights which had earned optimum disgrace for the Capt Amarinder Singh government.
“What could be more unfortunate for the unemployed teachers and a vast majority of students who are subjected to suffer due to the indifferent attitude of the government,” said the AAP MLA including the leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Harpal Singh Cheema, state core committee chief Principal Budh Ram, and Deputy Leader of Opposition Sarabjit Kaur Manuke, in a joint statement.
They said that on the one hand, students were being deprived of the required strength of teachers in schools, while on the other, ETT and TET qualified teachers were subjected to hold protests and take extreme step to ascend water reservoirs for jobs, which reflected the anti-public face of the ruling government.
“Captain government has been following the footsteps of the previous SAD-BJP government reneging on the ‘Ghar-Ghar Naukri’ promise it had pedalled among the people before assuming power leaving a large number professionally qualified teachers to be on the warpath,” they said.
AAP leaders demanded that the Government should immediately call in ETT and TET qualified teachers in the State to join government schools to end the staff crunch and also enable children belonging to the poor strata to obtain quality education, like the Arvind Kejriwal-led Government in Delhi.
At the same time, they demanded that the Government should liberalize on ETT qualified, physically-challenged and freedom fighters quota conditions so that they could also get equal opportunities as well. They also demanded that the minimum age limit for all government jobs up be extended to 42 years.