Guest teachers reply to show-cause notices

Facing the axe, guest teachers have decided to intensify their strike.
Vinod Kasnia, district president of the Guest Teachers Association, today accused senior functionaries of the Education Department of having misled the Punjab and Haryana High Court by declaring them surplus, Kasnia said all 4060-odd guest teachers had submitted identical five-page replies to the show-cause notice served on them whereby they had challenged the government’s records and also cited an HC judgment to support their claims.
“Senior officers of the department have given false affidavits in the court although reports sent by Block Education Officers clearly atated that guest teachers had enough workload to keep their jobs,” he said.
He alleged that a single guest teacher was looking after two of three sections in certain schools but he or she too had been declared surplus.