Read Here: TET Teacher who runs a Lower Primary School in Dima Hasao single-handedly!

Umrangso: At a time when TET-qualified teachers in Guwahati launched a massive agitation demanding justice regularisation of their contractual jobs, here’s a story of a TET teacher who runs a Lower Primary School in Dima Hasao single-handedly for the past 7 years.

Meet Miss Pallabi Dulakhoriya who passed her TET examination 7 years back i.e in the year 2013 and working at an LP school teacher in Dima Hasao's Umrangso.

This particular school namely (Rongmili LP School) is located 16 km inside Umrangso town in Dima Hasao and as per reports; presently there is not a single teacher apart from Miss Pallabi who is constantly monitoring the school and its development with her own monthly salary.

It is to be noted that she is the only teacher who takes the regular classes for students from nursery to 5^th standard, it is quite shocking to know the fact that, she is also the head teacher who gets engaged in a monthly orientation programme, meetings, etc.

She also pleaded before the State Education Minister of Assam, Siddhartha Bhattacharya and Government of Assam to appoint more qualified teachers in order to run the school more efficiently.

Meanwhile, the All Assam Primary TET Uttirna Sikshak Samaj on Tuesday launched the massive ‘Dispur Chalo’ agitation at Khanapara Veterinary Ground in Guwahati today pleading the Assam State Government to fulfill their demands.

The TET teachers claimed that as per the 2016 State Assembly Election Manifesto, the Government of Assam-led by BJP had earlier promised to regularize of the contracts of TET qualified teachers, however, in the past three years there has been no such development.

The TET qualified teachers also informed that earlier several memorandums were submitted to the Chief Minister and the State Education Minister urging for the regularization of their jobs, but the Government failed to pay heed to the matter.

Also, the recent comparison of TET qualification with a driving license by the Education Minister at a Radio show also hurt the sentiments’ of the TET-qualified teachers. Later, Many TET-qualified teachers, offended by Bhattacharya’s comparison, have started using the prefix “driver” in their user names on social media (similar to the ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign by the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha election).

Around 41,000 TET-qualified teachers were appointed in contractual posts under the Sarba Sikhsa Abhijan Mission, Assam. While some of them got regular appointments, a majority of them are yet to get regular appointments creating job insecurity among the teachers.

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