12,481 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Teachers’ Salary Held Up

A REPORTER

SHILLONG: Over 12481 teachers, working under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan schools under centrally sponsored schemes in the state, have not been paid salaries for four months, besides eight months Arrears Salary of Financial year 2016-17 yet to be paid by the State Government.

Aristotle C Rymbai one among the aggrieved SSA Teachers who is also the President of Meghalaya SSA School Association (MSSASA) Central Body, SSA Teachers’ Union in the State says, “Everybody knows that nobody goes into teaching to get rich, but teachers don’t expect to be suffered and penalized for their chosen profession.”

The non-payment of their four months salary for a period from April to July 2018 and arrears has put the SSA Teachers into depression and irked and the continued depression of teachers’ wages will harm the quality of schooling in Meghalaya.

“We have been without salary for the last four months and no immediate solution seems visible till date and its not only an issue of 12481 SSA teachers but also a question of survival of thousands of people that comprise the families of these teachers.

It’s the most delicate issue of education of scores of children and survival of elderly parents of these teachers”, Rymbai said.

“We had served more than 15 years to promote elementary education right from the grassroots level and its times for the State Government to come out with it vision and some magnanimity in realizing that it isn’t just about SSA teachers, their salaries, streamlining or acceptance but it is also a matter of our future generation which is suffering for no reason,” Rymbai concluded.