Shimla, April 27 -- The Primary Teachers Association staged a protest against the creation of one Directorate of School Education and demanded the state government to take back the decision on Saturday.

During the protest, the teachers raised slogans against the secretary (education) Rakesh Kanwar as well as the state government.

Pramod Chauhan, president, Primary Teachers' Association in Shimla, stated that while the government is making changes in the education sector - which teachers welcome - the merger of the Directorate of Elementary Education with the Directorate of Higher Education into a single body could damage the basic structure of education rather than bring about qualitative improvement.

Chauhan said the Directorate of El...