The All Garo Hills SSA School Teachers’ Association (AGHSSASTA) has raised the ever present issue of non-payment of salaries.
In a release today, AGHSSASTA said that teachers have not been paid their June and July salaries.
It was only last month that the SSA teachers carried out a four-day agitation for five months’ worth of pending wages. On July 21 the state government promised to clear four months’ worth by the end of July.
AGHSSASTA had a string of other complaints, namely that it seems that the state government only pays their salaries if the teachers agitate, that the problem of irregular payment of salaries is greater than it was than under the previous regime, wages have not been enhanced for SSA teachers nor has their employment been regularised as has been the case in other states, no funds have been provided by the state government for teacher learning material, and the maintenance of school grants has been reduced by the state government from Rs 12,500 to Rs 10,000.
It is no wonder, AGHSSASTA said, that Meghalaya ranks so poorly in the Performance Grading Index, where it was graded as the lowest in performance, infrastructure and equity after Bihar.
