Punjab holds test to fill school teachers’ posts
July 3rd, 2011 - 11:11 pm ICT by IANSChandigarh, July 3 (IANS) The first edition of the teacher eligibility test (TET) to fill vacancies in Punjab government schools was held in different districts amid tight security Sunday. Eighty protesting teachers were detained by police.
Special security arrangements were made near all test centres in different districts like Bathinda, Mohali and Patiala, in the wake of disruption threats given by different unemployed teachers’ associations.
According to police, around 30 teachers were detained in Bathinda while they were trying to stage a protest. Nearly 50 teachers, including a dozen women, were detained a day earlier.
Members of different unemployed teachers’ unions are against the government’s move to make TET test compulsory for the teachers applying for posts in public schools.
“We had the maximum threat from unemployed teachers’ unions in Bathinda district but everything went very smoothly,” said a Punjab police official here.
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