Teachers and employees' body of Assam seeks fulfilment of demands

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The Assam Secondary Teachers and Employees' Association has expressed resentment at the government's alleged lackadaisical attitude towards resolving their issues.

The Association's publicity secretary Mahidhar Kalita said that an executive meeting of the Association was held recently. In the meeting, they had a threadbare discussion on their long-pending demands. The main demands include scrapping the National Pension System (NPS) and restoring the Old Pension Scheme, extending retirement benefits and other facilities to the teachers and employees whose services were provincialized in 2013; extending death benefits to the additional teachers who have been appointed on a contractual basis, giving such additional teachers benefits and facilities at par with regular teachers; filling up vacant posts of teachers in secondary schools, upgrading the non-graduate posts of teachers to graduate posts; and immediately filling up the vacant posts of head teachers in schools.

Kalita said, "We urge the government to fulfil our demands at the earliest."

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