GUWAHATI: The All Assam Non-Provincialized Teachers’ Association, Assam, demanded that the educational institutions that were set up before January 1, 2006, and those teachers and employees in those institutions who were deprived of provincialization in 2013 and 2021, should be provincialized.
In a press meet, the association’s president, Harmohan Bora, and secretary general, Prafulla Patwary, said that “dividing among us and keeping agents within our own association will not be solving our problems. We demand that those educational institutions that were established before 2006 and the teachers and employees of those institutions are not included in the Provincialization of Services of Teachers and Reorganization of Educational Institutions Act, 2017 should be provincialized by November 15. There are a total of 2319 institutions, from lower primary to colleges, established before January 1, 2006, where a total of 19,527 teachers and employees were deprived of provincialization in 2013 and 2021. We demand that the government provincialize them.”
The Association further said, “There are also venture institutes and schools where the midday meals have been scrapped; according to that, we demand that the government bring back the midday meal scheme to these institutes, along with the distribution of books, uniforms, and bicycles. If not undertaken within November 15, then we will undertake an indefinite hunger strike until our demands are met.”
“Also, we have been protesting since the implementation of the act and are demanding its full amendment. We also demand that a total of 2319 schools that were established before January 1, 2006, and the teachers and employees appointed in those schools were deprived in the years 2013 and 2021, which all should be made provincialized. We have been voicing our concerns and demands in all our long protests, and we will continue until our demands are met.”
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