Nod to regularise 14.2k teachers

MANSA: The Punjab council of ministers on Sunday gave the go-ahead to regularise the services of 14,239 teachers who have completed 10 years in one go or have gaps in their service with 10 years of service completed in a scattered manner.
Of these, 7,902 are teachers who have uninterrupted service of 10 years and 6,337 are those who have a break in their services and have completed 10 years in service with breaks. The periods of service, completed with gaps in between, will be counted if these turn out to be 10 years in total.
A decision to this effect was taken by the council of ministers in a meeting chaired by the chief minister at Bachat Bhawan. There was a third in the row to be held outside Chandigarh, the earlier ones having been held at Ludhiana and Jalandhar.
The cabinet has also decided to amend the act about chit fund companies and act is being amended in such a manner that stringent measures of sentence up to 10 years are being incorporated. The policy about saving people from stray cattle too is being framed and compensation of up to Rs 5 lakh will be given to victims which till now is Rs 1 lakh.
Chief minister Bhagwant Mann, while talking about decisions taken by the cabinet meeting, said they had assured temporary and contract-based employees that their services will be regularised in a timely manner and the government is working on it.
He added the cabinet had decided to regularise the services of 14,239 teachers who had completed service of 10 years. "These teachers will get regular salary, perks and holidays, as per the policy of the government," he said.