Contractual teachers protesting at the loss of their jobs are not having much of an impact on the state government, which is willfully ignoring their ongoing agitation.
The Meghalaya Government Lower Primary School Contractual Teachers’ Association (MGLPSTA) has been staging a hunger strike for the last two weeks opposite Shillong Civil Hospital but has not received any communication from the state government.
MGLPSTA president Birbor Riangtem said today that the association will hold a meeting on Thursday to decide what further course of action to take.
“We want the state government to invite us for talks,” he added.
In January 2021, the state government terminated the services of teachers who did not clear the Meghalaya Teachers Eligibility Test (MTET), which the government made mandatory in 2020. Several contractual teachers are also now over the age limit and were under contract for more than 12 years.
