SHILLONG, MAR 30: Even after the release of their pending five-month salaries, the SSA schools teachers in Meghalaya have threaten to intensify their agitation if the union government fails to hike their salaries and regularizing their services.
Apart from regular release of salaries, the SSA teachers have been demanding for hike in their salaries from Rs 6000 to 12, 000 beside regularize their services.
The pending salaries of the SSA teachers were released after agitations by the aggrieved teachers who had given the state government March 30 deadline to release their payment. The teachers had also threatened to close down all SSA schools if their pay is not released within stipulated time.
Meghalaya SSA School Association (MSSASA) president HM Marbaniang told this website, “Now, we are demanding enhancement in our pay as the present monthly income of Rs 6000 is below the maximum salary of a Grade-IV employee and the workload and responsibility of the a teachers is much heavier.’
Even as he said that the SSA teachers were happy over the release of their pending salaries, Marbaniang, however, said, “The state government should also put pressurize on the centre to consider our demands as Assam and other states in the country are paying the SSA teachers handsome amount.”
The MSSASA has also decided to submit its memorandum to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) next month.
Marbaniang informed that a delegation of five members of the association would leave for Delhi on April 7 to submit the memorandum on the issues pertaining to the SSA teachers in the state before the PAB meeting. – By Our Reporter
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