A police team will accompany teachers to checkpoints (representation)
Chandigarh:
Around 40 teachers from the Punjab government will now monitor the important Phagwara checkpoints in the Kapurthala district between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. to end illegal mining of sand in the region, the government said. the state in order.
The order comes a month after the state revoked a similar order that deployed 24 teachers to guard the distilleries in Gurdaspur.
Teachers will be assigned to prominent police checkpoints in Phagwara city, Kapurthala district, to end the illegal extraction of sand, according to the new order.
The magistrate of the Phagwara sub-division and senior officials of the civil and police administration, in an exchange of communication, were informed that the teachers will be posted at checkpoints between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. and will be accompanied of a police team.
Calling the order “shameful,” Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) criticized the government of the State Congress for involving government teachers in non-educational activities.
Party spokesman and former Punjab Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema tweeted: “After the distilleries, the Punjab government is now dispatching teachers from various police nakas to stop the extraction of sand. Hours from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Alcohol and Sand Mafia teachers? This shameful order should be withdrawn immediately. “
Last month, the Punjab government was massively criticized for a controversial order issued by the office of the deputy commissioner of Gurdaspur who deployed 24 teachers to alcohol factories to monitor the supply of alcohol and was forced to revoke the job. ‘order.
“The officer who placed the orders should face action. The sale of alcohol is not the only thing the Congressional government should be obsessed with,” said Daljit Singh Cheema.
