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GUWAHATI: Reiterating the demand to restore the Old Pension Scheme, the Assam State Primary Teachers' Association today submitted memoranda to the President of India, the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister of Assam.
Members of the Assam State Primary Teachers' Association gathered in front of the Directorate of Elementary Education, Government of Assam. President of the association, Akhil Chandra Nath, said, "Under the banner of the All India Primary Teachers' Federation, we have launched an agitation throughout the country. On the occasion of Teachers' Day we submitted around 80,000 signatures from Assam as part of the signature campaign to the President and Prime Minister of India to express our solidarity. In the next phase of our agitation, we held a district-level dharna on October 20 and memoranda to the President of India, the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister of Assam. Today we again gathered and submitted memoranda. We hope that our demands will be fulfilled so that teachers and state government employees can lead a dignified life after their retirement."
The demands of the association are immediate revival of the Old Pension Scheme; regularization of contractual teachers in all states; ensuring that the 'anti-teacher' policies are removed from the National Policy of Education, 2020; and implementation of the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission throughout the country.
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