Govt offers to set up 8-member joint panel
Wednesday, 06/03/2019
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CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government has proposed a joint eightmember committee of union leaders and senior officers to look into the demands of protesting schoolteachers in the state.
The government suggested the committee at a meeting between four senior cabinet ministers and leaders of the Adhyapak Sangharsh Committee. The four ministers were school education minister Om Prakash Soni, finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, health minister Brahm Mohindra and cooperation minister Sukhjinder Randhawa.
“The proposed committee, having five representatives of teachers and three officers, will look into the demands within three months. The issue of teachers’ regularisation will be discussed in the cabinet,” said Soni after the meeting. However, the government’s proposal failed to end the impasse with the protesting teachers.
Adhyapak Sangharsh Committee members Balkar Singh Valtoha and Vikram Dev said they would wait for the outcome of discussion in the state cabinet meeting on Wednesday on their demands for regularisation of contractual teachers with full salary before giving any commitment on the committee proposed by the government.
