SAS Nagar, November 28 - The outstanding amount of 5th-8th examination fee for last 4 years and The Punjab School Education Board Employees Association held a protest march today from the Punjab School Education Board Office to Phase-7 regarding the demand for advance payment for the textbooks to be printed for the year 2024-25. In which board office employees participated.

During the march, the employees raised loud slogans against the government. The employees were holding anti-government slogans in their hands. Due to the protest march, the traffic was also stopped. After the protest march, the entire work of the board office remained at a standstill till afternoon. Apart from this, all the gates of the office board office were also closed in the morning.

Meanwhile, while addressing the gate rally held by closing the DPI gate, the organization's president Parvinder Singh Khangura and general secretary Sukhchain Singh Saini said that before the current Aam Aadmi Party government came to power, claims were made that AAP Aadmi Education will be given special priority when the party forms the government, but the government is turning a blind eye to this main institution of the education department. He said that like the previous governments, this government is also not taking any positive attitude towards the board office.

The leaders said that it was expected from the government that the outstanding amount of Rs 600 crore due to the board office would be released to the board office but nothing has happened. He said that the financial condition of the board office has become so thin that financial benefits could not be released to the retired employees in the past. Apart from this, DA dues and medical bills of employees have also been pending for a long time. The leaders demanded from the government that considering the financial condition of the board office, the amount should be released to the board office.

He said that if the government does not initiate positive action to release the money, then more intense struggle will be waged in the near future. The rally was also addressed by Seema Sood, Prabhdeep Singh Boparai, Sunil Kumar Arora and Gurikbal Singh Sodhi among others.

On this occasion, press secretary of the organization Jaspreet Singh Gill, Baljinder Singh Brar, Malkit Singh Gaggarh, Raj Kumar Bhagat, Jasvir Singh Chotian, Jaspal Singh Tehna, Manjinder Singh Hulka, Manjit Singh Lehragaga, Baljinder Singh Mangat, Gaurav Sampla, Lachhmin Devi and Surinder Singh. A large number of employees including Apart from President Amar Singh Dhaliwal and General Secretary Gurmail Singh Maujewal, many other retired officers and employees were present from the Retiree Association.