GUWAHATI: At a time when over 12,000 workforce nurses of government hospitals are on an indefinite strike across the state, round 6,000 secondary college lecturers - all of whom are engaged as contractual employees in government-run prime faculties - on Wednesday threatened to launch a 'non-cooperation' with the government from the brand new educational consultation setting out in January.
These additional or contractual lecturers, who were appointed in 2010, lashed out at the state authorities for no longer regularizing their jobs, 'blockading' their pay hike and depriving them of social safety schemes. The association demanded chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal's intervention into the subject to resolve the disaster through December, failing which a non-cooperation motion can be introduced, they stated.
Speaking to the media right here, the All Assam Secondary Additional (Contractual) Teachers' Association president Sureswar Deka stated the aggrieved lecturers would possibly boycott the following board exam duties early subsequent yr if their calls for are not fulfilled.
"Our foremost demand is regularization of the jobs of 6000 employees who work as additional teachers. The previous Tarun Gogoi government had in 2016 given cabinet approval for regularization of our jobs and published an office memorandum in this regard. However, the present BJP-led government continues to show apathy towards the cause of these teachers even though they carry out all important tasks meant for government employees," Deka stated.
The association wondered why the families of these lecturers would no longer be eligible for social safety schemes or different benefits even after the government has assigned election accountability to them for the upcoming panchayat polls. They additional requested if the government would take duty if these lecturers change into victims of violence all through the polls.
Secretary of the teachers' frame, Mahidhar Kalita, stated these additional lecturers, but even so comparing board exam resolution scripts, additionally engaged in NRC- and census-related paintings. However, they're paid meagre salaries in return and the government isn't fascinated with regularizing their jobs, Kalita added.
These additional or contractual lecturers, who were appointed in 2010, lashed out at the state authorities for no longer regularizing their jobs, 'blockading' their pay hike and depriving them of social safety schemes. The association demanded chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal's intervention into the subject to resolve the disaster through December, failing which a non-cooperation motion can be introduced, they stated.
Speaking to the media right here, the All Assam Secondary Additional (Contractual) Teachers' Association president Sureswar Deka stated the aggrieved lecturers would possibly boycott the following board exam duties early subsequent yr if their calls for are not fulfilled.
"Our foremost demand is regularization of the jobs of 6000 employees who work as additional teachers. The previous Tarun Gogoi government had in 2016 given cabinet approval for regularization of our jobs and published an office memorandum in this regard. However, the present BJP-led government continues to show apathy towards the cause of these teachers even though they carry out all important tasks meant for government employees," Deka stated.
The association wondered why the families of these lecturers would no longer be eligible for social safety schemes or different benefits even after the government has assigned election accountability to them for the upcoming panchayat polls. They additional requested if the government would take duty if these lecturers change into victims of violence all through the polls.
Secretary of the teachers' frame, Mahidhar Kalita, stated these additional lecturers, but even so comparing board exam resolution scripts, additionally engaged in NRC- and census-related paintings. However, they're paid meagre salaries in return and the government isn't fascinated with regularizing their jobs, Kalita added.
Around 6,000 contractual teachers threaten to launch stir from Jan
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