Over 10,000 teachers observe 2-hour strike in Punjab

October 2nd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - To keep a regular tab on students' performance and to streamline the education system, all teachers in the state schools have been asked to maintain school diaries, the state education minister said here Friday. "Among various steps for improvement in imparting quality education, teachers have been instructed to maintain diaries on weekly basis.

September 25th, 2009 BHOPAL - Teachers of state-run universities and colleges in Madhya Pradesh returned to work Friday, a day after the high court ordered them to call off their 20-day-old stir for higher pay. The teachers had gone on strike Sep 5 and were joined by the non-teaching employees a day later, declaring that they will not return to work till their demand is fulfilled.

September 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hundreds of teachers of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) went on a hunger strike Thursday after the government rejected their demand for a better pay package. M. Thenmozi, head of the IIT faculty federation, said they were on hunger strike as announced on Monday.

September 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Almost all teachers of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will attend office and take classes Thursday while they hold a hunger strike, after the government rejected their demand for a better pay packet. We submitted a fresh memorandum Tuesday to the human resource development (HRD) ministry but have not received any reply.

September 8th, 2009 BHOPAL - Normal functioning in most colleges and universities in Madhya Pradesh came to a standstill Tuesday as more teachers' bodies joined an ongoing strike by professors demanding a revised pay package. Professors in Madhya Pradesh had started an indefinite strike from Sep 5 on Teachers Day demanding a revised University Grants Commission (UGC) pay package.

September 5th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Primary school teachers demanding a salary hike were baton charged by police here on Teachers Day. As the teachers tried to enter the state assembly Saturday, police baton charged them.

September 4th, 2009 BHOPAL - Professors in Madhya Pradesh are marking Teachers Day in a different way this Saturday -- they have started an indefinite strike demanding higher pay. The joint front of government college teachers, Shasakiya Mahavidyalayin Shikshak Sanyukta Sangharsh Samiti, said the teachers went on an indefinite strike after the state government failed to keep its promise of implementing the revised pay scale from Sep 4.

August 24th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - In a bid to improve the student-teacher ratio and to fill the vacant posts in Punjab schools, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has ordered officials to immediately start a recruitment drive and employ 10,810 teachers. Punjab government will employ 10,810 new teachers in secondary schools in the state within the next three months.

June 28th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Adding another feather to its cap, Punjab has emerged a leading state in the country in providing best infrastructure and facilities to primary and upper primary schools. Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur Sunday said Punjab has surpassed Delhi, which has now shifted to second position as far as the infrastructure index is concerned.

May 2nd, 2009 JALALABAD - Trying to strike an emotive chord on the issue of female foeticide in Punjab - a state with one of the worst sex ratios in the country - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday called upon people of the prosperous state to wash the blot of killing daughters. 'I am the proud father of three daughters.

April 14th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - As the autorickshaw strike called by various unions in Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula continued for the second day Tuesday, putting thousands of commuters to hardships, the union territory administration proposed to create a uniform corridor policy in the tricity to reduce traffic hazards and pollution. 'Under the policy, it was proposed that 500 LPG run autorickshaws each from Punjab and Haryana would be permitted to enter Chandigarh and an equal number would be allowed to ply from Chandigarh to Mohali and Panchkula,' official spokesperson said.

March 5th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - University and college teachers in Punjab have come out in support of three professors who were suspended from a leading college here for allegedly misbehaving with the principal. 'The suspension of these professors is unlawful.

March 4th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Teachers of government and non-government colleges in Punjab and the union territory of Chandigarh went on a 72-hour strike Tuesday demanding higher pay. The 72-hour 'Education Bandh' was called by the Punjab Federation of University and College Teachers' Organisation (PFUCTO) in support of their demand for implementation of the new notifications of the University Grants Commission (UGC) on pay scales for faculty.

January 27th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Academic activity was completely paralysed in colleges and universities across Punjab and Chandigarh Wednesday following a mass casual leave protest by teachers in the region. The Punjab Federation of University and College Teachers Organisation (PFUCTO) served a 10-day ultimatum to the Punjab government to notify the revised pay-scales for college and university teachers.

January 8th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The panic button was pressed Friday when many petrol pumps of Chandigarh and its neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana went dry on the third day of the indefinite strike by officers of public sector oil companies. Long queues of harried customers carrying additional containers could be seen during the early hours of Friday at various filling stations even before the petrol pumps opened.