SSA teachers under the umbrella of the Meghalaya SSA School Association (MSSASA) will attend a general meeting to be held on September 21 at the Riatsamthiah Community Hall here to discuss issues relating to their salaries and job regularisation.
Speaking to the media yesterday, MSSASA president Aristotle Rymbai said that these demands are to confirm them as full-time teachers and to enhance their salaries.
Rymbai said that the leaders met with the SSA State Project Director Swapnil Tembe on September 10 to discuss these two demands.
Tembe informed the MSSASA that the Education Department has been directed to put on hold its proposal to enhance SSA teacher salaries. SSA is a central government scheme that will conclude in 2026. With this date looming, other states have regularised the service of SSA teachers and the Meghalaya government has therefore put the salary enhancement proposal on hold in order to first move a cabinet memo for approval for regularisation.
Rymbai informed that the Education Department is preparing a draft copy of the cabinet memo that will be taken to the Cabinet for its approval. The last salary enhancement for Meghalaya SSA teachers was in 2016.
Yesterday, two other SSA teachers’ associations, the All Meghalaya SSA School Teachers’ Association (AMSSASTA) and the All Garo Hills SSA School Teachers’ Association (AGHSSASTA) served a deadline of September 30 to the state government to enhance their salary by 100 per cent, failing which they will strike.
