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The initiative, which features a large-scale ribbon-cutting drive to inaugurate upgraded faculty infrastructure, is about to start on Monday. Lecturers have been suggested to create accounts on X and take part within the marketing campaign.
The transfer goals to showcase the state’s training reforms and amplify their attain by digital platforms, for which WhatsApp messages from larger authorities to decrease degree have been circulated and SoPs for the marketing campaign have been issued.
The transfer has been objected by the Democratic Lecturers Entrance (DTF) Punjab, with its chief Vikram Dev Singh asserting that the transfer was an try to utilise lecturers as a “publicity device for AAP”.
It condemned the Punjab authorities’s choice to contain lecturers and college heads in selling inauguration ceremonies on completely different social media platforms.
The lecturers’ union additionally condemned the transfer to contain ministers, MLAs, MPs and different elected representatives within the inauguration of presidency buildings in colleges. “This transfer is an try to extend political interference in colleges and disrupt the educational surroundings,” Singh instructed India In the present day TV.
He warned that the transfer may have a unfavorable impression on the training of kids in Punjab.
“It is going to promote VIP tradition and politicise the academic surroundings in colleges. The federal government’s initiative has turned faculty principals and heads into ‘occasion managers’,” he mentioned.
Singh steered that funds needs to be allotted for varsity welfare, as an alternative of “spending on such occasions”.
