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Chandigarh: 600 teachers to vote in PUTA elections
Panjab University teachers’ body is seeing a two-cornered contest between the incumbent group led by Mritunjay Kumar and Manu Sharma’s team
Polling to elect the new executive team of the Panjab University Teachers Association (PUTA) will be held on Thursday. The results will be declared the same day.
Around 600 varsity teachers are eligible to vote. The polling will take place at the Law Auditorium between 8:30 am and 2:00 pm.
The teachers’ body is seeing a two-cornered contest between the incumbent group led by Mritunjay Kumar and Manu Sharma’s team. Both have promised to focus on the implementation of the seventh pay commission and promotion policy for teachers of the dental institute.
The other key agendas of the Mritunjay-Naura group include the grant of central university status to PU and pension for all. The group has also promised that it will make efforts to ensure that teachers receive all retirement benefits immediately upon their superannuation .
The Manu Sharma-Kashmir Singh group is also vouching for CAS promotions for teachers of dental institute and clearance of cases of counting of past service. They have promised to work on the flexibility in the use of improvement of education funds and central funding for PU.
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