Teachers' union opposes recruitment of PT under SSA
Source: The Sangai Express

Senapati, May 27 2016 : The All Hill Districts EGS/SSA Volunteer Teachers Union has opposed the recruitment of 489 primary teachers under SSA and has demanded immediate termination of all recruitment process with respect to SSA primary teachers.

The decision of the union to oppose the recruitment process was taken at a joint meeting held today.

Union president Trimson Saka and general secretary R Thiem in a statement said unless the State Government takes up step to regularize the EGS/SSA teachers, the recruitment procedure will be opposed by the union.

The union has also demanded the regularization of volunteer teachers and warned to cease all recruitment process with respect to SSA primary teachers if its demands are not addressed.

EGS/SSA volunteer teachers were appointed during 2004 and 2005 through DPC conducted by ZEO/DPO concerned under an arrangement that the EGS/SSA centres will be upgraded to primary schools in time and also with the assurance that the volunteer teachers will be regularized as primary teachers.

Consequently, some of the EGS/SSA centres were upgraded to primary schools but the volunteer teachers were not regularized as primary teachers.

The volunteer teachers were given all requisite training by the department and as such are eligible to be become primary teachers, the union asserted.

The State Government failed to regularise EGS/SSA volunteer teachers in the last recruitment process under SSA.

The union took the matter to Court in 2013 where a petition was filed in the High Court by the aggrieved teachers to address their grievances.

The High Court had ruled in favour of the aggrieved teachers directing State Government to regularise 118 EGS/SSA volunteer teachers belonging to schools which have been upgraded to primary schools within two months from the date of disposition of the case.

However, despite the order of the High Court the State Government did not initiate any steps for regularization till date, the union said in the statement.

Strongly decrying the indifferent attitude of the State Government, the union said the State Government should not go against the orders of the High Court, rather, it must respect and follow the orders.

The union also warned of agitation in case their grievances are not addressed.

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