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Agartala: The Tripura High Court on Friday ordered the state government to regularise the payment of 962 science graduate teachers within the next six months. The order mandates it for the government to pay these teachers the outstanding salaries and arears of the past three years along with a regularised salary.
The verdict which was pronounced by a single bench of Chief Justice AA kureshi, issued its order after hearing the plea from the teachers regarding regularisation of their salaries. Although the incumbent government appealed that its not possible to provide regular salaries to these teachers hired by the former government, the High Court rejected it and pronounced its verdict in favour of the teachers.
Notably, the former Left Front government had provided recruitment to 962 science graduate teachers in 2012. As per government rule, the teachers were entitled to all benefits including regular income after completion of their fixed pay contractual tenure of five years. Senior lawyer, Purushottom Roy Barman said, "The science teachers were eligible for regular pay after their five-year contractual service ended on July 2017." "Nevertheless, the present state government is not willing to pay their regular salaries," he said.
Prior to this verdict, the terminated teachers launched a mass agitation in the state capital and have been since then, actively involved by forming human chains, blocking roads and sitting for strikes. Demanding re-recruitments and regular incomes, the teachers' group wished to sit for discussions with the state government and resolve their issue. However, the incumbent BJP government has repeatedly stated that it is impossible for them to engage them as teachers again, as they do not hold any accountability to this group of teachers who were recruited by the previous government.