EGS volunteers set to launch agitation
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 14 2016:
The Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) volunteers under Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) are all set to launch
agitation to demand appointment as primary school teachers.
Addressing media persons today at Manipur Press Club,
president of All Hill Districts Long sufferers, EGS Volun-
teers' Association T Saka said that many persons were recruited
as volunteers of EGS/community based teachers by the State
Mission Authority, SSA for villages where there are no school
in 2004-05.There are around 700 such volunteers.
The Govt has promised to appointe these volunteers as
primary school teachers.
The association will launch different
forms of agitation if no positive response is given by the Govt
to their demand within ten days, he said.