Summary:
PATIALA: Many teachers on Sunday staged a protest against the state government over their demands to regularise them as promised during the polls. They said that government asked the teachers to get Rs 10,000 enhanced monthly salary each year until their salary becomes equal to those of regularised teachers. They staged a protest at Mall Road in Patiala . They added that government gave another offer that teachers can join at basic salary to get regularised. The protesting teachers alleged that the government had failed to meet its electoral promise of regularisation after three years of their service.Earlier this month, the teachers marked their protest by polishing shoes on Teachers’ Day and observed it as a black day..