Mohali, May 22 -- Government Teachers Union Punjab and Office employees of directorate of public instruction (DPI) staged a protest outside the municipal corporation on Thursday, alleging excessive workload from being assigned multiple government duties simultaneously.

Around 150 teachers were present around 3 pm, and protested against stress and workload caused by municipal corporation election work, census responsibilities and, in some cases, the ongoing drug census.

Union leaders stated that teachers and employees are already burdened with non-academic duties.

Despite this, the administration is mentally harassing teachers and employees by assigning them dual duties of Census and MC elections.

The union alleged that instead of ensu...