'Scrap order issued for closure of Residential Special Training Centres'

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LAKHIMPUR: At time when the State Government has consecutively declared to provide employment for one lakh unemployed youths per year, almost 800 workers working at 86 Residential Special Training Centres across the State have lost their jobs. At present, uncertainty looms large over 800 families of these jobless workers.

It has happened as the result of a letter of order issued vide No. SSA) Spl. Trang.New RSTC/597/2013/pt dated 14th May, 2022 to the District Mission Coordinator of all the districts of the State, except Biswanath, Dhemaji, Kamrup Metro and Sonitpur, by Roshni Aparanji Korati, IAS, the Mission Director of Samagra Siksha Abhiyan, Assam following a statement made by Ranoj Pegu regarding the closure of the RSTCs.

According to the order, the Project Approval Board, Government of India has not recommended the proposal for continued learners of RSTC under AWP&B, 2022-23 for Samagra Shiksha, Assam. Therefore, through the order, the Mission Director, Samagra Siksha Abhiyan, Assam has requested the District Mission Coordinators to close down the RSTCs of their district from June 1 of the current year. Further, they are requested to make necessary arrangement for keeping all materials Including furniture, utensils, kitchen equipments, bedding items etc. under the safe custody of Block Mission Office or any other secured Government establishment and for mainstreaming the continued learners of the RSTCs in the formal schools where they have been tagged.

The order has turned to be a bolt from the blue upon the 800 workers working in the RSTCs of the State. Regarding the issue, the Residential Special Training Centre Workers Association (RSTCWA) addressed a press conference at North Lakhimpur Press Club on Monday. Addressing the media persons RSTCWA State committee president Abdur Rajib said that the order issued for the closure of the RSTCs had hurt the workers concerned.

"These workers have passed a period of invaluable 17 years of their life by drawing a nominal amount of remuneration while working in the RSTCs. Finally, they were deprived of the nominal amount of the remuneration by spending which they managed their families. The order has created havoc in the families of the workers," Abdur Rajib said in the presence of Lakhimpur district unit RSTCWA president Manoj Saikia, vice-president Dipti Saikia and other office bearers of the organization.

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