Guest teachers in Haryana hold mock Assembly, demand regularisation

Guest teachers in Haryana schools held a mock Assembly at the Mini Secretariat in Kurukshetra on Saturday, demanding regularisation under the three-year policy notified in 2014 in accordance with court orders.

Organised on the call of the Rajkiya Anubandhit Adhyapak Sangh, the symbolic Assembly passed a resolution seeking regularisation of guest teachers by an overwhelming majority. The resolution will be submitted to Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini at his camp office in Kurukshetra on November 29. The teachers will also hold a rally in Delhi on December 12 and submit the resolution to the President.

Teachers said guest teachers had been serving in government schools for the past 21 years and contributing to the State’s education system, but the government continued to keep them in temporary employment arrangements instead of regularising their services. Following the court orders, the Haryana School Education Department issued speaking orders denying regular status to the guest teachers.

They said the mock Assembly was organised to raise questions concerning the regularisation of guest teachers, judicial decisions and the government’s accountability on a public platform.

The event was attended by educationists, intellectuals, employee union leaders from various departments, School Management Committee representatives, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, student and youth organisations, advocates’ unions, writers’ associations, university professors, the Jan Sangharsh Manch, Kurukshetra, and social activists.

These teachers, appointed between 2005 and 2008, are working as junior basic teachers, trained graduate teachers, and post graduate teachers.