{"id":86809,"date":"2022-06-10T09:56:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T04:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=86809"},"modified":"2022-06-10T09:56:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T04:26:16","slug":"teachers-in-ludhiana-demand-restoration-of-the-old-pension-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/teachers-in-ludhiana-demand-restoration-of-the-old-pension-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers in Ludhiana demand restoration of the old pension scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Old Pension Achievement Morcha handed a memorandum to additional deputy police commissioner (ADC) Rahul Chaba on Thursday to remind the Punjab government of the promise it made during the Punjab assembly elections earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charan Singh Sarabha, one of the union leaders, said, &#8220;Prior governments had abolished the old pension scheme before January 2004, and had introduced a new contributory pension scheme. An MLA of Punjab sworn in once is entitled to a pension of Rs. 70,000 per month, while government employees get minimal salaries, and at times this is not enough to pay for medical expenses.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tehal Singh, another local union leader, said that no state government minister or leader had ever mentioned the promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Punjabi workers will launch a strong protest if the state government fails to restore the old pension scheme in the upcoming budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the budget session of the Punjab government, Tehal said the Old Pension Achievement Morcha would hold a protest march in Mohali on June 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Pension Achievement Morcha handed a memorandum to additional deputy police commissioner (ADC) Rahul Chaba on Thursday to remind the Punjab government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[301,40],"class_list":["post-86809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab-news","tag-ludhiana","tag-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86811,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86809\/revisions\/86811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}