Regularization of posts
STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: All Assam Primary TET Qualified Teachers’ Association (AAPTETQTA) will be staging a hunger strike demanding regularization of the posts of the contractual and state pool primary teachers on July 10 at Chachal, Guwahati.
Earlier, the State government decided to regularize only those posts whose schools were accredited with an A+ grade in Gunotsav for consecutively two years. And in this regard, the regularization processing has already started. However, AAPTETQTA opposed this very step of the government and demanded that the teachers’ posts should be regularized without any precondition.
AAPTETQTA’s president, Trailokya Deka, said, “The government has shown extreme indifference towards regularizing the posts of the contractual and state pool teachers in various districts of the state. We have sent a letter to the Education Minister, Dr. Ranoj Pegu, on May 19, to cancel the discriminatory and unfounded decision to regularize all contractual and state pool teachers.”
Deka also advocated minister-level departmental discussions to clarify the position on the entire issue. He said that “The teachers are not happy that the Education Department has not shown any goodwill so far. The union has already held general meetings at the district level in each district committee and expressed their preparations for the democratic agitation.”
Further, he said, “The central leadership of the union regretted that the department and the government have not responded to the legitimate demands of regularization with unconditional salary security for teachers who were recruited 10–11 years ago.”
The teachers’ union has repeatedly called for a solution to the problems through dialogue, but no attention has been paid to their calls in practice by the government. Therefore, the association has taken to agitation as a way to express their demands.
Deka further said, “The government and the department should immediately abandon the decision of discriminatory regularization based on Gunotsav and give genuine recognition to the sacrificial services of the teachers in the interest of the progress of the large public sector primary education system. Therefore, it is essential to regularize the jobs of long-serving teachers with salary security without any preconditions. The government has not regularized the jobs of contractual teachers, which were promised during the election.” Deka said that they will hold a hunger strike with the participation of about 200 teachers from each district of Assam.
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