Lucknow: Amid the ongoing Assembly session, a large group of aided secondary school teachers staged a protest on Monday at the camp office of the Director of Secondary Education in Lucknow. Their main demand was the immediate release of the pending offline transfer list, which they claim has been delayed despite repeated written assurances.
Teachers, many carrying umbrellas in heavy rain, said they would not leave until the list was issued. “If orders are not released today, we will go to jail; otherwise, we will march to the secondary education minister’s residence on August 22,” one protestor said.
Participants recounted personal hardships, including elderly parents left unattended, stalled marriages of unmarried teachers, and the death of an Amroha teacher allegedly while waiting for his transfer. Some have been protesting at the site for over a month, holding multiple demonstrations without results.
Union leaders accused department officials of using police pressure instead of addressing the problem. They claimed previous commitments such as the July 31 deadline had been ignored. A letter from the education director’s office to the police requested security deployment at the protest site. Two factions of the teachers’ union now plan separate protests, with one group continuing the sit-in and the other targeting the minister’s residence later this month.
