The demonstration, described by union leaders as the largest of its kind, took place in front of the minister’s house in Haryana on Wednesday, with teachers chanting slogans for regularisation and the withdrawal of the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) requirement.
Following the protest, Vijay Singh Dahiya, Principal Secretary of the School Education Department, invited the agitating teachers to his office in Chandigarh for talks scheduled on September 24, signalling a possible negotiation window.
Speaking to the crowd, Rajkiya Anubandhit Adhyapak Sangh president Dinesh Yadav, women’s wing president Poonam Kumari and state general secretary Bhupendra Singh demanded that guest teachers be treated as regular employees retroactive to May 28, 2014, and that arrears be paid with 6 percent interest.
The union also condemned the Haryana Guest Teachers Rules 2026, issued a day before the protest, saying the new provisions cut casual leave for male guest teachers from 15 to 10 days a year and for female teachers from 25 to 22 days, and fell short on maternity and childcare benefits, offering 720 days of unpaid childcare leave without adequate maternity provisions.
Teachers cited a Supreme Court judgment on April 16, 2026 that upheld the state’s policy of regularising eligible Group B, C and D employees after three years of service, and a Punjab and Haryana High Court ruling on April 29, 2026 in the Satya Dev, Sant Kumar and Jasbir Singh case that directed the Haryana government to regularise guest teachers serving as Post‑Graduate Teachers, Trained Graduate Teachers and Junior Basic Teachers.
The protest is part of an indefinite sit‑in at the Kurukshetra Mini Secretariat that began on June 23, with the union claiming that roughly 16,000 guest teachers are still awaiting regularisation and are demanding gratuity, pension and other benefits accorded to regular staff.
Union representatives urged the state government to implement the court orders and to take a final decision on regularisation at the Chief Minister’s level, warning that continued inaction would further disrupt the education system.