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BEd teachers protest
Tribune News Service

Fatehgarh Sahib, February 15
The B.Ed Teacher's Front today burnt the effigy of Punjab government and raised slogans against Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal.

The leaders of teachers' body alleged that father-son duo is misguiding masses and especially teacher's community by issuing false statements.

District president of the front, Sohan Singh, alleged that about 14,000 teachers were to be recruited by the government but only 8,000 of them were given jobs. Rest 6,000 vacancies are still lying vacant.

The spokesperson added that when teachers tried to enquire about the fate of the remaining teachers during CM's Vikas Yatra, Badal assured that the list of teachers is ready, and they would soon be inducted.

?However, concerned authorities refuted claims of CM and said they don't have any such list with them,? he added.

He said the Badal's are trying to befool the masses with their sops worth crores. ?These ministers are returning the hard earned money of the public in form of sops to woo votes for Lok Sabha elections,? said another teacher.

Press secretary, Joginder Singh, Harmeet Singh, Satnam Singh, Shingara Singh and a large number of other teachers were present during the occasion.

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B.Ed teachers protest delay in appointments


Express News Service
 Posted: Jul 14, 2008 at 0146 hrs IST
PrintEmailNewsletterPost CommentsRSS Members of Unemployed B.Ed Teachers? Front, Punjab, today organised a protest rally here today. The teachers are protesting the delay in their appointment by the government.
Speaking on the occasion, representatives of the front, Rajwinder Singh and Ajit Pal Singh said that the government had unnecessary delayed the process of appointment of B.Ed teachers in the state. ?The teachers community has not taken the delay by the government kindly. We would launch another protest rally and gherao the house of Education Minister on July 20, if the process is delayed any further,? said the protesters. The teachers submitted a memorandum to state minister Hira Singh Gabria.

Avtar Singh, press secretary, said that the government had earlier delayed the process by over two months citing reasons of code of conduct and are still befooling the teachers. He said that this was just a warning rally as the teachers would come out in full force if the process was delayed any further by the government.

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B.Ed teachers up in arms
Barnala, June 11
In response to a call by the B.Ed Teachers? Front Punjab, the B.Ed Teachers? Front in district Barnala held a massive protest rally at Chintu park here.



B.Ed teachers organised a protest rally in support of their demands in Bathinda on Thursday. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh

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Punjab CM asks to initiate B.Ed teacher's recruitment     
Punjab Newsline Network     
Tuesday, 01 May 2007
CHANDIGAH: The Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Tuesday announced the state government's commitment to complete the requisite modalities for recruitment of B.Ed. teachers.

Talking to the delegation of B.Ed. Unemployed Teachers Front, Punjab he said that the government was keen to complete the whole process with in next two months in order to facilitate a smooth transition  in to the next academic session beginning in July.

Badal said that the state government intends to put the teachers at the center stage of government's vision of education and would undertake a comprehensive initiative to raise their social standing and economic status. Expressing deep concern over what he described total collapse of  educational structure especially at the primary and secondary levels, Mr. Badal directed the Education Department Punjab to formulate a policy aimed at lifting the academic and intellectual standards of students to equip them with skills needed for competitive excellence not only with in the country but also globally.

He further said that concepts of Adarsh Schools was also an important component of the state government's approach to the issue. He said that education could be meaningful only if it was made accessible to the poorest of the poor, with special focus on mentally gifted but economically weaker students. He also added that an elitist approach education had resulted in the academic crisis now grip the state. The Chief Minister said that budgetary share for education would be appropriable reserved to subsidize quality education for the intelligent poor students.

Prominent amongst others who attended the meeting including Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur, and Principal Secretary School Education  KBS Sidhu.

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Unemployed BEd teachers lathi charged in Punjab

Sunday, July 27 2008 16:41 (IST)        Subscribe to Newsletter
Kapurthala, July 27 (UNI) Police today resorted to a mild cane charge and fired tear gas shells to disperse the agitating unemployed BEd teachers in the local Shalimar Gardens.

As many as 12 persons, including five policemen received minor injuries in the clash between the police and agitating teachers.

 
According to official sources over a 1000 odd unemployed BEd teachers from all over the state had assembled at Shalimar Gardens to hand over a memorandum to Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur pointing to the delay in the issuance of appointment letters to 14,000 teachers selected by the government. The agitating teachers were insisting on proceeding towards the residence of the Minister but the police did not allowing them.

SDM G S Khera and city DSP Sukhdev Singh Chhina tried to reason with the agitating teachers who were bent upon proceeding to the Ministers residence. The agitating teachers agreed to court arrest in case the police did not allow them to proceed towards the residence of the Minister, who incidentally was not in town.

The agitating teachers first boarded the two police buses but later on alighted and staged a dharna on the road outside Shalimar Gardens.

When the teachers tried to break the police cordon to move towards the residence of the Minister, police resorted to a lathi charge and fired few rounds of tear gas shells to disperse the agitators. The teachers also retaliated and resorted to brick batting resulting in injuries to five policemen including SHO Sarup Singh.

Later after order was restored the teachers handed over a memorandum to the SDM. The teachers were demanding the stopping of irregularities in the transfer policy and adjustment of teachers at stations nearest to their homes.

Sukhdarshan Singh, President of the unemployed BEd teachers front told mediapersons that the government had adopted delaying tactics by not issuing the appointment letters to 14,000 selected teachers because of the stay orders form the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He alleged that government did file its reply in the High Court and did not argue the case resulting in the stay.

He alleged that government had issued appointment letters to about 150 mathematics teachers but they were not allowed to join their duties.

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Jobless B.Ed teachers go begging in protest
Tribune News Service

Bathinda, September 5
While activists of the Unemployed BEd Teachers Front today went begging as a mark of protest against the state government policies, jobless art and craft teachers observed Teachers Day as black day here.

The unemployed BEd teachers first converged at Teachers Home from where they took out a ?begging rally? that culminated at the mini-secretariat.

Addressing the protesters, the district president of the front, Mr Jagmail Singh, said even as a large number of schools were functioning without adequate staff, the state government had failed to fill 40,000 posts of teacher. He said the quality of education in government schools had gone down due to the government?s ?indifferent attitude? towards education sector. The protesters were seen begging while the rally passed through main areas of the city.

He said the state government had ?forced them to resort to begging?. He warned the government that if posts of teacher were not filled soon the ruling party would have to pay a heavy price in the coming Assembly elections. He said they would hold a state-level rally in Chandigarh on September 14 when the Congress government?s last Assembly session would begin. He said they were taking out ?Jaago? in villages and district headquarters to organise people to join their protest.

On the other hand, unemployed art and craft teachers from Bathinda, Mansa, Muktsar, Faridkot and Ferozepore districts also gathered in the city and observed Teachers Day as black day. Holding black flags and banners in their hands, they took out a protest march to mini-secretariat where they indulged in intense sloganeering against the state government. They also unveiled their plan to hold a massive protest in Chandigarh on September 14. Protesters from both the unions blocked traffic in front of the bus stand for about half an hour.

Sangrur: At least 100 unemployed B.Ed teachers, including women, observed Teachers Day as ?black day? here today.

Under the banner of the Berozgar B.Ed Adhyapak Union and the Berozgar B.Ed Adhyapak Front, they took out a march here, wearing black badges, carrying black flags and raising anti-government slogans.

They blocked traffic at the traffic lights chowk near the main bus stand for some time and held a rally in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner.

They demanded the filling of vacant posts of teacher on a regular basis, enhancement in upper age limit to 42 years for recruitment of teachers, preference to highly qualified teachers during selection and appointment of B.Ed teachers in primary schools.

Computer teachers working in government schools, under the banner of the Punjab Computer Teachers Union, also observed ?black day? by wearing black gowns.

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Jobless B.Ed teachers go begging in protest
Bathinda, September 5
While activists of the Unemployed BEd Teachers Front today went begging as a mark of protest against the state government policies, jobless art and craft teachers observed Teachers Day as black day here.




Unemployed B.Ed teachers go begging in protest against the government policies in Bathinda on Tuesday. ? Photo by Kulbir Beera

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'45,000 posts of teachers vacant in state schools: Survey'  [Hits: 655]
As per a survey conducted by the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT), 45,000 posts of teachers are lying vacant in Punjab schools...
As per a survey conducted by the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT), 45,000 posts of teachers are lying vacant in Punjab schools.

The survey revealed that the number would increase to 50,000 by the end of this year. Out of the 13,000 primary schools in the state, 950 have been working on only papers, as they neither have a teacher nor the required infrastructure.

Apart from this, out of total 836 senior secondary schools, 450 schools do not have principals, while out of 1,350 high schools, 835 schools do not have the head master or mistress, the survey said. In Jalandhar, more than 60 schools do not have a permanent teacher.

Notably, the Punjab government had recruited 14,000 B.Ed teachers last year, but till date no appointment letter has been issued, leading to protests.

Unemployed B.Ed Teachers' Front, Punjab, president Chander Shekahr said despite the vacant posts in schools, they were not being given appointment letters.

Punjab Education Minister Bibi Upinderjit Kaur said recruiting teachers against vacant posts was on their priority, and appointment letters were not being issued as a case was on in the court.