Jobless teachers demand withdrawal of agri bills, NEP
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Jobless teachers demand withdrawal of agri bills, NEP
Description
Bathinda: The Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) Pass Unemployed BEd Teachers’ Union held a day-long campaign in the social media, terming September 17, which coincided with the 70th birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as ‘Unemployment Day.’ They asked Modi to withdraw the agriculture marketing bills introduced in the Lok Sabha and also repeal the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. In a statement issued by the union’s president Sukhwinder Singh Dhillon and press secretary Randeep Sangatpura, it was stated that the government that had promised two crore jobs is snatching peoples’ employment opportunities. “With the agriculture marketing bills turning into acts, the youth engaged in agriculture sector would become unemployed with corporates taking over. Many youth of Punjab are dependent on agriculture in one form or the other. The New Education Policy is also a step towards privatisation,” read the statement. They said the wrong policies of the Modi government had created a huge crisis of unemployment at national level and the country only could overcome the situation if the agriculture bills and NEP were withdrawn.
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2020-09-18
Coverage
Chandigarh