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GUWAHATI: The Sadou Asam Karmachari Parishad (SAKP) has welcomed the recent decision of the State Cabinet to give headmaster status to the senior-most Lower Primary School teachers of schools that have 150 or more students with full pay scales and the DDO (Drawal and Disbursal Officers) for the head teacher in charge of schools that have below 150 students.
In its August 2 sitting, the State Cabinet took this decision on the long-standing demand of the LP school teachers of the state. In a tweet after the Cabinet decision, Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said, "Assam Cabinet decides: All in-charge Head Teachers of LP Schools with enrolment 150+ will become regular HT with the pay scale of Rs. 14000-60500 + Grade Pay Rs. 7600. The post will be created by upgrading the Senior Most Asst. Teacher.
"The Head Teacher in charge of LP Schools with 100-149 enrolments will be vested with DDO power and function. Such an HT in-charge will get a charge allowance of Rs. (300+500) = Rs. 800. These HT in-charges will be upgraded to full-fledged HT once they achieve 150 enrolments.
"Above 2 categories of HT will also be vested with DDO power in respect of the staff of the teachers of the nearby LP Schools with lesser enrolment, which will be clustered around an LPS having 100+ enrolment. The DDO status of DEEO in respect of LPS teachers will cease."
SAKP president Dwipen Sarma said, "We have all along been raising the demand for the creation of the post of headmasters of LP Schools in the state. We did raise the issue with reasons in all formal and informal meetings with the Chief Minister. This decision of the State Government will make the lower primary schools of the state more responsible and adept in the field of education. Besides improving the quality of education at the primary stage, this decision will also start the system of promotions for LP school teachers. We appeal to the State Government to create the post of headmaster in every primary school in the state."
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