5 protesting teachers terminated on grounds of claiming false emergency leaves

Ludhiana | Tuesday | 15th January, 2019

Summary:

The official orders mentioned that the teachers had cited false reasons their medical and emergency leaves whereas they were present at the protest site to participate in the strike. It’s a complete failure of the state government that has been taking unwise and hasty decisions besides making false promises.” The education department claimed that the teachers were given show cause notice over their false reasons to claim the leaves but the teachers failed to answer.The protesting teachers are annoyed over the decision taken by the government to terminate their services as they claimed that it was an undemocratic decision. This is an injustice done to the teachers.”Notably, the government cited the reasons that teachers were terminated for participating in the indefinite strike in Patiala and had misinformed their respective District Education Officers. They claimed that Education Minister, OP Soni, failed to meet the promise done on December 1 over the demand of regularization without any terms and conditions..