Mohali, June 3 -- Thousands of teachers under the banner of the government teachers union (GTU), Punjab, staged a protest at Vidya Bhawan, Mohali on Tuesday over various teacher- and student-related demands before marching towards the Punjab chief minister's residence in Chandigarh.

Led by state president Sukhwinder Singh Chahal and general secretary Gurbinder Singh Saskaur, the protesters alleged that no official came forward to receive their memorandum. The march was stopped by Punjab and Chandigarh Police on the Mohali-UT border, where teachers held a sit-in and raised slogans against the government.

The union accused both the Centre and the Punjab government of weakening public education, alleging that implementation of the National...