The parishad has written to the state government demanding action against Shah, who gave the call as part of teachers agitation to press for more wages, under The Prevention of Insult to National Honour Act 1971. Assistant secretary of Parishad's Surat unit Tejdeep Vansia said the teachers' action could be compared only to terrorists.

According to Protocol it is mandatory for teachers to attend flag hoisting functions that are held every year in the university and colleges. By boycotting the function for a demand like more wages the teachers have insulted the national flag and should be brought to book, the parishad said.

Anniversary
A number of functions have been organised to mark the 167th birth anniversary of Kavi Narmad on Tuesday. Mayor Savita Sharda and other civic body officials will garland his statue at Gandhi Baug in the morning, according to a SMC release. Later in the evening, a rare collection of essays of Narmad, compiled by Dr Ramesh Shukla, will be released at a function at 6 pm at Samruddhi. The compilation is the 13th on Narmad being published by the Kavi Narmad Yugavart Trust.

LIC contests
The Surat division of the Life Corporation of India has organised essay, elocution, quiz and poster contests for students of schools and colleges of Surat and South Gujarat, to mark the 42nd year of its establishment. The contests, from August 30 will be held for a week, a release issued by the LIC here stated. While the drawing contests will be held on August 30, essay competitions for school and college students on September 1, inter-school quiz competitions on September 3, the inter-college elocution contest will be held on September 4. An essay competition on `Life Insurance' will be held on September 5. All competitions will begin at 9 am at the LIC office in Muglisara.

Liquor seized
The Navsari rural police arrested four people with Indian Made Foreign Liquor worth Rs 60,000 and seized a Maruti Van (GJ 7 A 2748) used to transport the liquor on Saturday evening. The police intercepted the car on the Purna river bridge on national highway no 8 and arrested Mohammed Rafiq Gajiwala, Javed Moin Shaikh, Mohammed Irfan Shaikh and Idrish Ahmed Shaikh. According to the police, the four were transporting liquor from Daman to Vadodara. The seized goods, along with the van, amounted to Rs 2.35 lakhs.