Patiala:- An urgent meeting of teachers and other employees of all aided schools of Patiala district was organized at Municipal Park, Arya Samaj, Patiala. In which all the employees present unanimously announced that in protest against the Punjab government's aided school policies, all the aided school employees of Patiala district, along with teachers, other employees and pensioners of all the aided schools of the state, will protest in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office of Tarn Taran Sahib on November 7.
Because a special meeting of the Punjab State Government Aided Teachers and Other Employees Union, Punjab Aided School Pensioners Association and Aided School Management Association Punjab was held at Tarn Taran Sahib yesterday.
In this emergency meeting, the three organizations unanimously decided that if the Punjab government does not release the salary grant for all aided schools in Punjab from April to December 2025 by November 6, then on November 7, after holding massive protests in the markets of Tarn Taran Sahib, the three organizations will hand over their 1700 working and 6000 retired teachers and other employees at the DC office Tarn Taran and launch a jail-filling movement.
Along with this, it was also announced that if the government does not make arrests, then on November 8 and 9, massive protests will be held in various towns and villages of Tarn Taran Sahib assembly constituency to inform the people that the teachers of aided schools who teach one lakh 76 thousand children are living without salaries for the last eight months.
During these protests, the negative behavior of the government's dictatorship and bureaucracy and the false education revolution of the Punjab government will be exposed. If the government still does not withdraw the audit letters of the managements of aided schools and release grants, then all the correspondents of the aided schools of Punjab will submit their resignations to the government.
Giving this information, the state president of the organization Gurmeet Singh Madnipur, state general secretary Sharanjit Singh Kadimajra, state president of the Pensioners Association Gurcharan Singh Chahal and state president of the Management Association Sewa Singh Chawla also said that for the first time in the history of government-aided schools, salaries for eight months have been withheld in the name of auditing the income of the managements to provide 95 percent salary grant.
The union leaders said that aided schools have reached the verge of closure under the rule of the Punjab government, which is making hollow claims of education revolution.
The teachers of these schools have been on strike for many months. But despite repeatedly meeting the concerned officials and ministers and explaining their problems, no satisfactory solution has been found and all the working aided staff members and their families are on the verge of starvation.
It is a matter of great regret that the aided school teachers, who spread the light of knowledge among more than two and a half lakh students, are on the verge of extinguishing the lamps in their own homes. Forced by these circumstances, the Aided School Union has openly announced to start a Jail Bharo agitation on November 7.