'Ham Junior College' in Morigaon under public scanner

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MORIGAON: A Junior College has been depriving the provincialised benefits to its staffers owing to alleged conflict over the post of principal. Ham, a junior college of Moirabari, has come under the public scanner over alleged politics to fill up the post of principal.

The 'Ham Junior College' has been deprived of getting the provincialisation benefit at the last moment at a time when the state government had shown responsibility by provincialising the posts of the teachers who had been suffering a lot by working in schools sans salaries under the Provincialised Act-2017 and the Rectified Act-2018 in the state.

According to sources, the 'Ham Junior College for Girls' was established in 1996 with an aim to educate the local women at Moirabari. Since the establishment of the college in 1996, the college had been playing a premier role for the uplift of the education of women which is known to all.

But it is alleged that in 2011, suddenly the junior college came under the cloud of politics when the president of the junior college Mustafa Sahidul Islam had fradulently appointed his wife -- Saleha Begum -- for the lecturer post under the Logic & Philosophy Department of the college. Then, the secrtary of the governing body -- Abdul Motin -- and the principal of the college -- Nurjahan Rahmatulla -- had fully supported the alleged action of the president of the college -- Mustafa Sahidul Islam.

Later, Mustafa Sahidul Islam appointed his wife as the principal of the college after the former principal of the junior college -- Nurjahan Rahmatulla -- had resigned from the post of principal and joined Cotton college in Guwahati.

It is also alleged that as the fradulant action of the former MLA as well as the president of the college -- Mustafa Sahidul Islam -- came to the notice of the Director of the Secondary Education -- Babulal Sarma. He immediately passed a order to cancell the post of lecturer which was held by his wife -- Saleha Begum. He intentionally appointed his wife -- Saleha Begum as the principal.

On the other hand even after having their requisite degrees, the 13 teachers and six non-teaching staff of the junior college who had been working there for almost 20 years without salary, the college has been deprived of getting the provincialisation benefit. Because the qualification of the college principal -- Saleha Begum -- is not in accordance with the norms of the Provincialised Act-2017.

It is alleged that the Education Department mentioned only the Principal's education qualification and did not show any sympathy for the 13 teachers and the six non-teachers of the college.

The 13 teachers and the six non-teachers had submitted a writ petition under No.2522/2021 at the Gauhati High Court. Then the Court ordered the Commissioner Secretary to the Secondary Education Department not to deprive the deserving teachers and the non-teachers and asked the authorities concerned to provincialise their posts within two months. Now, the people of the greater Moirabari area have demanded the intervention of the state Education Minister.

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