Guest teachers take protest to Manish Sisodia

They said their tenure as guest lecturers will soon end after which they will be left jobless.

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According to an official, teachers employed on contractual basis in government schools have been demanding permanent employment, including appointment of a Pay Committee under the Seventh Pay Commission. Permanent job for contractual employees was also one of the promises made by the AAP before the elections.

Some of the women teachers alleged they were manhandled by police and said a teacher Shashi was  injured as a result.

“We spoke to Sisodia about his government’s promise to make us permanent. He said that our protest does not matter to him and told us to do the same next Saturday as well. A few of us started recording the interaction on our phones. We said CM Kejriwal has asked to record everything and we are doing just that. Soon, police took over and threw our phones and Sisodia left the scene. Police detained our colleagues,” Richa, one of the guest teachers, told Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay who arrived at the police station.

The detained guest teachers were released after Upadhyay’s ‘intervention’. “The government has completely neglected the issue of making guest teachers permanent. Regularisation of government jobs was the crux of Kejriwal’s promises but now the government is running away from its electoral stand,” Upadhyay said.

Upadhyay said the BJP will raise the issue of guest teachers before the Lt-Governor and the party’s leaders in the Assembly will ensure that matter is taken up in the next session of the House. (with PTI inputs)