Cheema holds meetings with teachers’ unions, pensioners to address demands

Punjab Newsline | Chandigarh

Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema, who also chairs the Cabinet Sub-Committee on employee matters, held a series of meetings on Monday with various teachers’ and education employees’ unions and the Punjab Government Pensioners Joint Front to discuss their demands and grievances.

During the meetings, Cheema directed the Education Department to immediately resolve issues that can be addressed at the departmental level. For demands involving financial implications, he instructed officials to hold joint meetings between the Finance and Education departments to work out solutions at the earliest.

Meeting representatives of the Punjab Government Pensioners Joint Front, Cheema said the concerns raised in their memorandum were already under active consideration and would be addressed appropriately. He reiterated the Punjab Government’s commitment to resolving the genuine demands of employees and pensioners.

Cheema separately met delegations from the IEATC Special B.Ed. Employees Union, Adarsh School Teaching and Non-Teaching Association, NSQF Vocational Teachers Front, ETT TET Pass Unemployed Teachers Union, 180 ETT TET Pass Teachers Association (Jai Singh Wala), B.Ed. TET Pass Unemployed Teachers Union, 3704 Teachers Union and the Punjab Government Pensioners Joint Front.

The meetings focused on various service-related, employment and financial issues raised by the employee and pensioner representatives. Cheema assured the delegations that their legitimate concerns would be examined and addressed through the appropriate channels.