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PUNJAB ASKS CENTRE TO EXEMPT EGS TEACHERS FROM TET

Posted on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 by Punjabi Articles


The Punjab government today asked the Centre to relax the condition of TET (Teacher Eligibility Test) for recruitment of the EGS teachers in the state as a one time measure.

The Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) teachers in the state had recently called off their agitation following an assurance by the government that it would favourably consider their demands, including regular service. In a statement here, Education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan said Chief Minister Parkash SIngh Badal was fully symathetic to the problems of the EGS teachers and wanted to help them. ''But the Central government's laws came in the way of his doing so''.

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EGS teachers hold blockade

Posted on Friday, 9 December 2011 by Punjabi Articles

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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Protesting EGS teachers gherao CM, manhandled

Posted on Thursday, 8 December 2011 by Punjabi Articles

Agitators threaten to spoil Badal’s birthday bash today

Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) teachers, mostly women, were manhandled by the police when they gheraoed Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s convoy at Sukhna Ablu village in Muktsar district today.

The incident took place soon after an “unsuccessful” meeting of the EGS teachers’ delegation with the CM at the Government High School in the village, where he held a Sangat Darshan programme.

Accusing the CM of showing dillydallying attitude towards the demands of employment and stern action against the Akali Sarpanch Balwinder Singh “Toti” of Daula village for slapping Varinder Kaur, one of their female colleagues, they blocked the main gate of the school to press for the acceptance of their demands.

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‘Not the slap, but brazenness of sarpanch is hurting’

Posted on Wednesday, 7 December 2011 by Punjabi Articles

Victim Varinder Kaur says she is getting threatening calls, vows to fight for justice

“It’s not the physical pain of the slap that hurts me. What hurts me is the brazenness of the Akali Sarpanch, Balwinder Singh Toti, who hit me and humiliated me in public without bothering about our decades of loyalty to the Shiromani Akali Dal and its leader, Parkash Singh Badal”, says Varinder Pal Kaur, the Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) teacher, whose victimisation by the arrogant Akali leader has evoked sharp reactions with even icons like Shah Rukh Khan dubbing it as “disgusting”.

“My grandfather and uncle had gone to jail in 1971 (during Emergency) and again in 1982 for this party but all that is meaningless today”, she said while showing scores of photographs of her family members with senior Akali leaders, including Parkash Singh Badal.

Alleging that she was getting threatening calls from Toti’s associates for reaching a compromise, the brave girl said she’ll continue with her agitation and protest at Chief Minister’s Sangat Darshan at her village tomorrow. “Toti should be arrested and all the policemen who stood there as mute spectators suspended”, she demanded.

Disappointment and disgust writ large on her face, Varinder Pal Kaur recalled how five years ago Parkash Singh Badal had attended the funeral of her grandfather. “Even in my wildest of dreams, I couldn’t ever think of such a treatment being meted out to me”, she said adding that she was not scared of the threats from Toti or his associates.

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