Deprived of salary, five school staff to approach Gauhati High Court

A CORRESPONDENT

HAFLONG: At a time when the people of Hatikhali are celebrating the upgradation of Hatikhali High School to Higher Secondary level, a total of five staff members, including a founding junior assistant, two fourth-grade staff and two teachers, who have been deprived of their salaries for nearly three years, reportedly for the change of system from offline to online and now they have been forced to approach the High Court.

The present Principal of the school, Asit Kumar Sen, is trying his best to solve the salary problem, but everything seems to be uncertain. The deprived staff have been running from pillar to post at Haflong and Dispur but nothing has been done till date, which has forced them to approach the Gauhati High Court, with the hope of getting justice this time.

Many people, including students of Hatikhali, expressed concern over the fact that the five staff have been deprived of their salary for three years. They were surprised at the overall role of the Inspector of Schools in Haflong, Assam.

Rathish Hakmausa, Sudhir Kumar Das, Hamzan Kemprai, Dayal Das and Deenmani Sinha, while talking to the media, said that in 2016, along with other parts of the State, online payment system was started in Dima Hasao district. Since then their names have been dropped from the official list. But the rest of the teachers in the school were getting regular salary.

Rathish Hakmausa, Sudhir Kumar Das and Hamzen Kempri have been working in Hatikhali High School since its inception in 1985 and have been receiving regular salaries since then. But the online system brought financial hardship in their lives due to non-payment of their regular salary.

Besides, two teachers - Dayal Das and Deenmani Sinha- were transferred from Diyungbra and Wadrendisa in the last half of 2016 and joined in Hatikhali High School. They initially received regular salary. But from May 2019 till today, that is for 30 months, they have been deprived of their salary.

Sudhir Kumar Das, a fourth grade staff of Hatikhali High School, said that he could not provide treatment for his wife due to non-receipt of salary and could not save her life. Hamzen Kempri also lost his wife due to lack of proper treatment for non-receipt of his salary. Rathish Hakmausa, a junior assistant, said that during the COVID-19 lockdown, they had to deal with various problems. Dayal Das said that his four-wheeler was dragged away by the authorities as he could not pay the bank's EMI regularly due to non-payment of salary.

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