Primary teachers sore

Association president Gian Chand said that Directorate of Primary Education was established in the state to further the cause of education at this level but the Akali-BJP alliance government was trying to abolish it which was against the constitutional provisions of the country.

The meeting also decided to oppose the language policy of the department which was being changed at the behest of Education Minister Tota Singh.

The association also expressed concern at the mushroom growth of the so-called individual or commercial model schools and demanded from the government to convert all these primary schools in the urban and rural areas numbering 12000 into model schools by providing them requisite teaching staff as per norms and other infrastructural facilities.

The meeting urged Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to immediately intervene and stay the decisions of the education department otherwise the teachers would stage a state level protest rally here on June 7.

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