Guwahati, Nov 09: The Assam government stated it’ll abolish 8,000 vacant posts of permanent school teacher as a more significant number of contractual faculty members are already working through the Sarba Siksha Abhiyan (SSA).
Opposition events and pupil corporations slammed the authorities claiming that the step is towards the hobbies of vernacular medium faculties.
Education Minister Ranoj Pegu stated that the country authorities in 2020 had supplied an ordinary pay scale and different blessings together with provider tenure as much as 60 years of age to 11,206 contractual teachers operating below the SSA in Lower Primary and Upper Primary schools.
“In order to keep rationality towards this near-regularisation, the Government determined to hold 8000 sanctioned posts of ordinary instructors vacant to keep away from duplicity and monetary neutrality,” he stated in a Facebook post.
The education minister stated that as those vacant posts had been saved frozen and will be vacant for an extended duration until the retirement of the contractual teachers, the government has taken into consideration it “prudent to abolish them for monetary discipline”.
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He, however, stated that the state government may create posts as and while required thanks to a growth in enrolment withinside the future.
Reacting to the announcement, Assam Jatiya Parishad president Lurinjyoti Gogoi alleged that the step to abolish the posts is “short-sighted” and against the public education system.
“Such conspiracies of the government against vernacular medium faculties are very vintage and the present day is the abolishing of lots of instructors’ posts. Such a selection associated with the training sector, that is a Constitutional situation, isn’t always in any respect acceptable,” he stated.
All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) organisational trendy secretary Aminul Islam stated that rather than giving jobs to the unemployed youths, the authorities abolished lots of opportunities.
“This step is simply unlucky at a time while simplest one instructor is presenting training in 4,000 schools in the state. To keep the instructor-pupil ratio according to the NEP, greater hiring is required,” he added.
The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) trendy secretary Sankarjyoti Baruah claimed that the BJP-led authorities in Assam are making plans to “finish” the vernacular medium institutions in the state.
“This will destroy all government schools in Assamese, Bodo, and other local languages. There are around 500 Assamese medium schools where there is no teacher at all. We demand that the government withdraw the decision immediately,” Baruah added.
After reactions from the competition commenced pouring in, Pegu called “a pressing press conference” at the situation on Wednesday.
On Monday, School Education Secretary Bijoya Choudhury wrote to the Accountant General of Assam informing the reputable of the selection to abolish the vacant posts of the ordinary instructors.
She stated in her letter that out of the full posts, 4,285 are in Lower Primary schools and the closing 3,715 are in Upper Primary schools.
