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The rural and border allowances of the employees have been stopped by the Punjab government. An emergency e-meeting of Government School Lecturers Union Punjab Majha and Border Zone on the issue of Rural Allowance, Border Allowance and DA arrears was held under the chairmanship of State President Sanjiv Kumar, Senior Vice President Aman Sharma Amritsar.

In this, Balraj Singh Bajwa Gurdaspur, Koshal Sharma Pathankot, Tajinderjit Singh Khaira Tarn Taran, Kuldeep Grover Fazilka and Malakiat Singh Ferozepur said that the school education department is the largest department of Punjab with the largest number of teachers and employees.
Aman Sharma said that due to the closure of rural and border allowance in teacher transfers, the majority of teachers applied for transfer from rural border areas to urban schools and a large number of them were transferred from villages to cities.

With the cessation of Rural and Border Allowance, there has been a huge gap of 8 to 13 percent in the salary of teachers in cities and villages, which has created a sense of dissatisfaction among the employees of the Education and Health Departments as well as other departments working in rural areas. has been

Which adversely affects the performance of teachers/staff and will have a very negative impact on rural education and health services.
On this occasion, the leaders involved have demanded the immediate release of the letter of the installments of Dearness Allowance issued from October 2022, due from July 2021 and January 2022 and suggested that if the financial condition of the government is not right, then this balance should be paid to G.P. F. Letter of deposit in accounts should be issued.

Therefore, the leaders present demanded the Chief Minister and the Finance Minister to immediately release rural and border allowance to protect rural education and health services. Leaders such as Jatinderpal Singh, Kulwinder Singh, Dilbagh Singh, Gurbir Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, Tajinder Singh Johal were present in this meeting.