CHANDIGARH, Feb 10: Nearly 570 teachers and pensioners from Ludhiana district today courted arrest at a rally organised by the Punjab State Aided School Teachers and Other Employees Union to protest against the alleged discrimination by the government towards them. The teachers' rally started from Sector 17 and culminated at the Housing Board chowk, where they were arrested under Section 107/51 of the CrPC.The employees threatened to boycott the middle standard examination of the Punjab School Education Board, starting from February 16, if their demands of revised pay-scales and additional benefits were not accepted.
Employees from Roopnagar, Patiala, Sangrur and Fatehgarh Sahib districts will take mass casual leave and court arrest in Chandigarh tomorrow, the union president, Teja Singh, informed.
Manohar Lal Chopra, general secretary of the union, alleged that the bureaucracy in the Finance Department was misleading the government by presenting false facts.
The demands include implementation of the Fourth Pay Commission scales, DA, interim relief, HRA, medical allowance and pensionary benefits to aided school pensioners in accordance with the recommendations of the Fourth Pay Commission, rural area allowance for employees of village schools and benefit of leave rules at par with government school teachers.
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