Several hurt as cops, teachers clash in Patiala

PATIALA: As many as nine policemen and over a dozen teachers had been injured all the way through a protest demonstration in Patiala on Sunday.

Numerous contractual teachers had reached the town, the place of birth of CM Amarinder Singh, to stage protest that took a violent turn when the police used water cannons to disperse them as they tried to march against Singh's residence.

The police later cane charged the protesters all the way through which a lot of them got injured. In retaliation, the protesting teachers also tried to break the barricades arrange by way of the police leaving nine cops, including SP (Headquarters) SS Virk injured.

The clash took place in front of Baba Buddha Dal school.

Patiala SSP Mandeep Singh Sidhu and deputy commissioner Kumar Amit straight away rushed to the spot to take inventory of the location.

SSP mentioned that cops had been injured after teachers attacked the police. He mentioned that the police did not lodge to canecharge.

The teachers were agitating in opposition to the state executive's new coverage of regularisation wherein they are being requested to sign up for on a per month wage of Rs 15,300.

Recently, the Sanjha Adhyapak Morcha and Panjab Bachao Manch had made up our minds to protest under the banner of Adhyapak Sangharsh committee during which numerous contractual teachers demanded regularisation.

Teachers claimed that regardless of the discharge of the price range by way of the ministry of human resource and construction (MHRD), the government slashed the salaries of the lecturers who didn’t accept its be offering on new terms. They claimed that already a lot of teachers under RMSA and SSA had been working on contractual basis for the past a few years and had been drawing salaries up to Rs 45,000.

Devinder Punia, the co-convener of teachers' union, mentioned, “The executive has paid no heed to our demands and really cunningly they made a lot of teachers join on new terms and prerequisites. We were protesting since lengthy, but chief minister Captain Amarinder has no longer met us until now. Today, the police cane-charged us leaving over three dozens teachers injured.”

The police had prior information about the protest rally and had even appealed the lecturers to not protest on the instance of Basant Panchami. The teachers had, previous, deliberate to hold out the protest from Veer Haqiat ground to YPS Chowk but later modified the direction near Fountain Chowk, to bypass the police. The police, on the other hand, shifted their water-cannon trucks and anti-riot vehicles to the new spot.

Meanwhile, CM Amarinder Singh has confident the lecturers and other staff of early answer in their demands.

On Sunday he appealed to the protesters to shun the trail of agitation and feature persistence, as the state executive was dedicated to finding an amicable approach to their pending demands.

Singh mentioned the employees must take into account that regardless of the remarkable financial crises being faced by way of the state, the government was doing the entirety in its power to unravel the issues of the employees. He mentioned that agitations is not going to result in any optimistic solution and talks will quickly be held to give you the option out.

Underlining that each one staff, including teachers, had been probably the most intrinsic a part of society, the CM confident them that the cabinet sub-committee shaped under well being minister Brahm Mahindra was already working to find a approach to their demands. The chief minister mentioned that he too would quickly meet the representatives of quite a lot of staff’ our bodies to unravel their problems.