Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 17 2010:
Teachers appointed on contract basis to make up shortage of teachers in hill districts have threatened to launch various modes of agitation in case their service is not extended by another year and their pay increased by 50 per cent.
Speaking to media persons at Kuki Inn this afternoon, functionaries of the All Manipur Hill Districts Contract Basis Teachers' Association said that 1332 teachers were appointed on contract basis in 2006 as per an MoU signed between ATSUM and the Government to make up shortage of teachers in hill districts.
According to the MoU, service period of the contract basis teachers should be extended until the deficit teachers are appointed on regular basis.
The contract basis teachers appointed in May 2006 were engaged in different schools of hill districts till December 2008.But after this period, the Government stopped engaging the contract teachers.
Saying that such policy of the Government has seriously jeopardised career of the contract basis teachers, the functionaries demanded that their service period should be extended at least by another one year.
They also insisted that the Government should frame a policy to hold a special DPC for the contract basis teachers and that their pay should be increased by 50 per cent.
In case, the Government decides to terminate service of the contract teachers, adequate compensation should be given to them.
If no positive response is forthcoming from the Government towards these demands by August 20, different modes of agitation would be launched, they added.