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Punjab Government on Wednesday assured to review the cases of the teachers, who were allegedly discriminated against during the teachers’ protest. At the same time, the Government has also assured the teachers to fulfil their “justified” demands soon.
The assurances were given by the state Education Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer during meetings with the different teacher unions of the State.
During the meeting, the Education Minister said that the education sector is the priority of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government which is fully committed to creating a robust atmosphere necessary for enduring quality education in the Government schools to the students of the State.
Giving a patient hearing to the issues raised by the various unions, the Minister termed these as “justified” and assured to fulfil other just demands too.
Meet Hayer said: “Only the teachers can transform the school education atmosphere, hence I would accord priority to resolve the issues of the teachers.”
He also said that the Government has zero tolerance policy towards the corrupt practices and he would take the feedback at ground level for transforming the educational system.
The Minister also sought cooperation from the teachers’ unions for implementing various reforms other than online transfer policy.
He also mentioned that the cases of the teachers, who were discriminated against during the teachers protest, would be reviewed and justice would be done. Besides, the cases pertaining to the Finance Department would also be considered sympathetically.
During the meeting, various issues raised by the Teachers’ Unions included stopping the implementation of National Education Policy-2020, reviewing the cases of discrimination and giving justice to the teachers, filing vacant posts of the schools, completing the ongoing new recruitments, reinstating the abolished posts, ensuring time-bound promotions in different cadres, keeping quota percentage as before in the matter of promotions, sending the teachers deputed in the offices to their parent schools, stop taking non academic work from teachers, sending PTIs back to middle schools who were shifted to BPEO offices, bringing Adarsh schools (PPP Mode) on right track, convert earned leave or medical leave deducted in respect of COVID-infected teachers during previous period into quarantine leave, decentralization of sanctioning authority of different leaves.
Apart from this, the matters regarding Finance and Personnel Department, besides anomalies in the Pay Commission were also taken up.
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