Instead of providing employment to unemployed teachers, they are being rewarded with lathis: DTF
SANGRUR: Democratic Teachers Front (DTF) State President Vikram Dev Singh, General Secretary Mahendra Kaurwali, Finance Secretary Ashwini Awasthi and Vice President Raghveer Singh Bhawanigarh today strongly condemned the indiscriminate lathi charge on unemployed teachers struggling to get appointment letters in 5994 and 2364 ETT recruitment.
The leaders said that thousands of teachers' posts are lying vacant in schools across Punjab, but the Punjab government, which claims to be an 'education revolution', is playing with the future of children studying in government schools of poor families by not filling the required number of posts in their schools. Instead of providing employment, teachers seeking employment are being rewarded with sticks. They said that under these recruitments, station selection was done by the teachers in the past but appointment letters have not been issued to them yet.
The leaders said that out of the thousands of vacant posts in government primary schools of Punjab, 5994 and 2364 ETT teachers were advertised during the previous government. The appointment process, which was started more than two and a half years ago, has not been able to provide employment to any unemployed person yet, due to which the wait for government school students to get new teachers and for highly qualified unemployed people to get employment is not coming to an end. On the contrary, dozens of unemployed teachers, including Punjab Students Union state leaders Dheeraj Fazilka, Sukhdeep Hathan, Rajinder Dhilwan and Arvinder Azad, were injured during the lathi charge carried out by the Sangrur police administration today, which blows up the government's claims of 'change' and 'education revolution'.
Unemployed teachers have been protesting for a long time demanding appointments, but the government is not listening to them yet. In fact, the government is deliberately delaying the recruitment without any solid reason, which is part of the strategy to close a large number of schools and run a few schools under the new Education Policy 2020. The leaders of the Democratic Teachers Front Punjab called on the people of Punjab to mobilize to launch a major struggle against it, declaring the lathi charge carried out by the Punjab government on unemployed teachers as part of the policy of taking away education from the people of Punjab and not giving them employment.