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12710 ad-hoc teachers will take out a protest march towards the Chief Minister's Chandigarh residence as part of the wage struggle to get pay scale. The Associate Teachers Front Punjab leaders said that a protest march was taken out towards Chandigarh on March 2, during which many teachers had their turbans torn off due to water pelting, female teachers had their chins dislodged and were injured.

During this struggle, the meetings with the Mohali administration have turned out to be futile. The Government wants to forcefully suppress the struggle, but the Associate Teachers Front will not tolerate the excesses of the government in silence anymore.

The leaders of the front, Manpreet Moga, Anubhav Gupta, Davinder Sandhu, Harpreet Jalandhar, Veerpal Sidhana and Gurlal Singh said that the struggle will continue until we get our legitimate and rightful demands, pay scale and all the benefits of regular employees. They accused the government was giving false statements on every stage that it has regularized 12710 ad-hoc teachers. But the reality is that this promise was limited only to papers and boards on the roads. The government is asking to regularize only the salary increase.

The provincial leaders of the Associate Teachers Front have given a memorandum to Arvind Kejriwal and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to fulfill the promise by giving regular pay scale to 12710 teachers and restore their dignity.