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The assurance was given by cabinet minister O P Soni, who met the teachers at the protest site near Gurdwara Dukh Niwaran Sahib.The protesting teachers immediately called off their indefinite strike after the assurance given by the education minister, who also announced that Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh will meet the protesting teachers within two days. The government missed two deadlines to regularize them under defined conditions but only 3,900 teachers opted to accept the government proposal. PATIALA: After 56 day-long protest, teachers associated with Sanjha Adhyapak Morcha have been given assurance by the Punjab government on reviewing its decision of regularizing teachers who were asked to join for three years of probation to get regularized by scaling down from their current salaries. Soni also assured that 5,178 teachers of the education department, who were waiting for full pay since November 2017, will get full pay scale from January 2019. Those who are getting salaries up to Rs 42,800 will have to join at a basic pay of Rs 15,300 for three consecutive years before being regularized..