Ravneet Singh
Tribune News Service
Patiala, September 5
Families of over 70 government school computer teachers, who died on duty or otherwise, have been left to fend for themselves as the state government has failed to implement rules of their recruitment.
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Implement civil services rules
We have held several meetings with officials and staged protests, but in vain. We want the government to implement the CSR as mentioned in our recruitment letters or merge us with the Education Department.
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The teachers’ services were regularised under the Punjab Information and Communication Technology Education Society after five years of contract work in 2011. But the following year, various facilities, including holidays, medical reimbursements and compensation to the family in case of death of a teacher were withheld, they said today.
As such, nearly 7,000 such teachers have been staging protests, demanding implementation of the civil services rules (CSR) as incorporated in their joining letters. The teachers who congregated in Patiala on Teacher’s Day today, said a computer teacher, Sarbjit Singh of Kapurthala, died in an accident on way to school regarding a computer-related work and another teacher from Bathinda died after being infected while he
was deputed on Covid-19 duty, but their families were not compensated.
Jaswinder Kaur of Patran in Patiala, who is MA, BEd and TET-pass, said her husband Baljit Singh was a computer teacher since 2006 and the sole breadwinner of their family of five. “He died due to Covid-19 in May this year. My father-in-law died a week after. The government did not compensate us. Since then, I and my 11 and 2.5-year-olds are forced to live in difficulty. I have no job and want the government to grant me a job to be able to take care of my family,” she said.
Families of 70 deceased Punjab govt school staffers await benefits
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