Education Bill full of holes: ASKAM

By our Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, March 7: The Asom Shikshak Karmachari Aikya Mancha (ASKAM) said that the Assam Education (Provincialization of Services of Teachers and Reorganization of Educatiol Institutions) Bill, 2017 is full of holes.

The members of the ASKAM have been in an indefinite strike at Dispur Last Gate since yesterday in support of their various demands regarding provincialization of posts of teachers.

The Mancha is skeptical of the Bill stating that the posts of teachers and other staff of government-aided lower primary, upper primary and other educatiol institutions of the State that have been set up, recognized by the government before January 1, 2006 will be considered for provincialization. They Mancha wants that this provision of the Bill should be changed as ‘the posts of teachers and other staff of government-aided lower primary, upper primary and other educatiol institutions of the State that have been recognized by the government till date’.

The Mancha further demands that the ‘DISE code for primary schools for 2009-10’ as mentioned in the Education Bill, 2017 should be replaced with ‘DISE code of primary schools of any year’.

The Mancha also said: “It’s unfortute that on the pretext of following RTE/NETE/UGC norms the government is trying to regularize the jobs of a section of teachers having to work 15-30 years as tutors, not as teachers. We want the jobs of all such teachers should also be regularized as full-fledged teachers.”

The Mancha also demands inclusion of 12,141 teachers and other staff of 1,370 government recognized venture schools in the Bill for provincialization of schools and posts.