<p>Demanding regularisation of job and a raise in salary, scores of temporary teachers staged a protest outside the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) here on Wednesday, with nearly half a dozen of them reaching the rooftop of the office building with petrol-filled bottles and some poisonous substance and threatening to kill themselves.</p>.<p>Under the banner of the Temporary Teachers' Union, more than 500 teachers laid siege to the PSEB building to press the Congress-led state government to accept their demands.</p>.<p>A heavy police force was deployed outside the multi-storey building. Nearly half a dozen of the protesters, however, managed to reach the rooftop with petrol-filled bottles and some poisonous substance.</p>.<p>Talking to reporters, they threatened to end their lives if their demands were not met by the government. The protest continued till last reports came in.</p>.<p>The protesting teachers of primary schools shouted slogans against the Amarinder Singh-led government.</p>.<p>They demanded that a total of 13,000 temporary teachers who had been teaching for the last several years in the state should be regularised without any condition.</p>.<p>Satinder Singh, who teaches in a primary school in Tarn Taran district, said, "I started in 2011 at a salary of Rs 2,000. And now I am getting just Rs 6,000."</p>.<p>The protesting teachers slammed Chief Minister Amarinder Singh for not addressing their issues in the last four-and-half years.</p>.<p>A protesting teacher said Singh, before coming to power, had promised them that their demands would be accepted. “But nothing has been done yet despite completion of four-and-half years of his term,” he said.</p>.<p>The agitating teachers also demanded a meeting with Punjab Education minister Vijay Inder Singla.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh slammed the Congress government for its callous attitude towards temporary teachers.</p>.<p>Holding the chief minister responsible for the situation that compelled the teachers to take to the streets, the BJP leader said the state government had “ignored” their demands.</p>.<p>He alleged Punjab has become a state where all sections are “unhappy” with the Amarinder Singh-led government.</p>.<p>“Be it government employees, teachers or entrepreneurs, all have been holding demonstrations against the Amarinder Singh government which has failed to deliver,” he alleged in a statement. </p>
<p>Demanding regularisation of job and a raise in salary, scores of temporary teachers staged a protest outside the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) here on Wednesday, with nearly half a dozen of them reaching the rooftop of the office building with petrol-filled bottles and some poisonous substance and threatening to kill themselves.</p>.<p>Under the banner of the Temporary Teachers' Union, more than 500 teachers laid siege to the PSEB building to press the Congress-led state government to accept their demands.</p>.<p>A heavy police force was deployed outside the multi-storey building. Nearly half a dozen of the protesters, however, managed to reach the rooftop with petrol-filled bottles and some poisonous substance.</p>.<p>Talking to reporters, they threatened to end their lives if their demands were not met by the government. The protest continued till last reports came in.</p>.<p>The protesting teachers of primary schools shouted slogans against the Amarinder Singh-led government.</p>.<p>They demanded that a total of 13,000 temporary teachers who had been teaching for the last several years in the state should be regularised without any condition.</p>.<p>Satinder Singh, who teaches in a primary school in Tarn Taran district, said, "I started in 2011 at a salary of Rs 2,000. And now I am getting just Rs 6,000."</p>.<p>The protesting teachers slammed Chief Minister Amarinder Singh for not addressing their issues in the last four-and-half years.</p>.<p>A protesting teacher said Singh, before coming to power, had promised them that their demands would be accepted. “But nothing has been done yet despite completion of four-and-half years of his term,” he said.</p>.<p>The agitating teachers also demanded a meeting with Punjab Education minister Vijay Inder Singla.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh slammed the Congress government for its callous attitude towards temporary teachers.</p>.<p>Holding the chief minister responsible for the situation that compelled the teachers to take to the streets, the BJP leader said the state government had “ignored” their demands.</p>.<p>He alleged Punjab has become a state where all sections are “unhappy” with the Amarinder Singh-led government.</p>.<p>“Be it government employees, teachers or entrepreneurs, all have been holding demonstrations against the Amarinder Singh government which has failed to deliver,” he alleged in a statement. </p>