Punjab education department starts online redressal meets

CHANDIGARH: Punjab school education department has started online district level meetings for redressal of employee grievances. These meetings will be held every Saturday.
The first such online meeting with school teachers and non-teaching employees of Pathankot district was held through You Tube link on Saturday. During the meeting, teaching as well as non-teaching staff shared their grievances directly with school education secretary Krishan Kumar. The meeting was also attended by DPI (elementary) Lalit Kishore Ghai, nodal officer concerned and district education officers from their respective places.
The meetings are aimed at ensuring positive reinforcement of hopes and aspirations of teachers who have being doing a commendable job in taking virtual classes, enhancing enrollment, distributing text books and performing various duties during the Covid-19 pandemic, the department spokesperson said.
Issues taken up for discussion included seniority, promotions, pay fixation, higher qualification from universities outside the state, problems in updating data on department web portal and regularisation of service.