Unemployed teachers burn govt’s effigy Tribune News Service Sangrur, October 26 Members of the state TET Pass Unemployed Teachers Union today burnt an effigy of the state government in Sangrur. They were led by the union’s state general secretary, Raghvir Singh Bhawanigarh. The protesters demanded appointment letters for about 3,800 unemployed teachers (2011 Teacher Eligibility Test-pass batch) who had appeared for counselling for 5,078 posts of rural associate teachers in October 2013. They also demanded that the posts of 15,000 posts of master cadre be advertised. He said applications be invited from unemployed B.Ed teachers, who had passed TET in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Before burning the effigy, the protesters held a march from Banasar Garden to Traffic Light Chowk, raising slogans against the state government and in favour of their demands. Addressing the protesters, Raghbir Singh said the state government had collected Rs 40 crore from unemployed teachers for conducting the TET in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. In 2011, about 8,000 B.Ed teachers had passed the test but the government had given jobs to less than 2,000 candidates so far.
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