Continuing their protest in support of their demands, members of the Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) Teachers' Union today staged a blockade in front of the Civil Hospital in Bathinda.
The Education Guarantee Scheme teachers, who are on a warpath, are demanding regular jobs.One of their activists, Varinder Kaur, was slapped by an Akali sarpanch when she tried to meet Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur at a Sangat Darshan in Muktsar a few days ago.
Tension brewing: EGS teachers argue with a commuter (in pink turban)
during a blockade in Bathinda on Friday. Tribune photo: Pawan Sharma
President of the EGS Teachers Union Pritpal Singh Fazilka said at least 3,000 persons had been teaching non-schoolgoing children since 2003. However, the centres opened under the EGS were closed on March 31,2008, rendering the teachers jobless. Under the EGS scheme, each teacher was paid Rs 1,000 per month.
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