Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, July 3

Members of the Elementary Teachers’ Union Punjab burnt copies of the pay commission during a protest before the district administrative complex (DAC) on Thursday.

Scores of employees gathered at the protest site and raised slogans against the government. The employees said the state government had betrayed them by cutting on their allowances. “If we were getting six per cent of the allowance earlier, now we will get only four per cent,” said Pawan Kumar, president of the union.

Rishi Kumar, another employee, said this would affect the elementary school teachers. “We will fight against this and on July 10, we will also gherao the residence of the Education Minister in Sangrur,” he said.

The employees handed over a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner in the name of the Education Minister.