Contractual teachers set deadline for salary payment

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: Contractual teachers working under the Sarba Siksha Abhiyan (SSA), Assam have asked Assam's Education Minister to ensure payment of their salaries within the 5th day of each month, failing which threatened to launch agitational programmes from the 6th day of each month.

The Assam State Primary Teachers' Association (ASPTA) on Thursday submitted a memorandum to Education Minister Ranoj Pegu, which stated, among other things, that: "Contractual teachers have not received their salaries for the month of January even though today is the 10th of February. This causes hardship to the teachers who are dependent solely on their salaries for sustenance."

The memorandum mentioned that many contractual teachers have bank loans and they consequently have to pay extra interest if they fail to pay repayment instalments on time.

The teachers pointed out in the memorandum that there has been delay in payment of their salaries over several months. They asked the Education Minister to clear their dues for January within the next two days.

Meanwhile, ASPTA principal secretary Ratul Chandra Goswami alleged that while the Education Department is implementing the rule of a 10-year embargo on transfers of teachers, for the past three years it has not implemented the rule which allows transfers of teachers on the basis of mutual arrangement.

Goswami demanded that the process of resuming transfers via mutual arrangement should be completed before any new recruitment of teachers in done.

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