Primary TET Teachers Association stage protest in front of Golaghat DC office

Golaghat: The Golaghat District Primary TET teacher association staged protest in front of the Deputy Commissioner office, Golaghat on Tuesday demanding to regularize service and resolution of various problems that are facing by the teachers.

Almost two hundred above TET teachers joined in the protest and slogan against Assam Government and demanding their job should be regularized. They demanded that all TET qualified teacher should be regularized without any terms and conditions. They also slammed the BJP government for giving false assurance.

In the year 2016 in BJP election manifesto, it was clearly mentioned that contractual TET teachers would be regularized. But at present despite regularize the contractual TET teachers post, the Assam government, as well as education minister Siddhartha Bhattacharya, allegedly did not pay any attention.

Besides TET teachers have performed their duty by facing various problems. The organization many times reminded the government to take initiative resolving the problems. But the Government didn't pay much heed to it.

The TET qualified teachers also threatened to go for a democratic protest ‘Dispur Chalo’ on June 29, if the government doesn’t come out with a solution on the matter within the next 10 days.

The TET qualified teachers also informed that earlier several memorandums were submitted to the Chief Minister and the State Education Minister urging for the regularization of their jobs, but the Government failed to pay heed to the matter.

Also, the recent comparison of TET qualification with a driving license by the Education Minister at a Radio show also hurt the sentiments’ of the TET-qualified teachers. Later, Many TET-qualified teachers, offended by Bhattacharya’s comparison, have started using the prefix “driver” in their user names on social media (similar to the ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign by the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha election).

It may be mentioned that around 41,000 TET-qualified teachers were appointed in contractual posts under the Sarba Sikhsa Abhijan Mission, Assam. While some of them got regular appointments, a majority of them are yet to get regular appointments creating job insecurity among the teachers.

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