From Our Correspondent
NONGSTOIN: The Federation of All Meghalaya Adhoc Secondary School Teachers’ Association (FAMASSTA) West Khasi Hills District Unit in a meeting held at Nongstoin on Sunday, decided to begin a three days agitation from September 10 to 12 as per the resolution taken up in the General Meeting of the Central Body held on August 31 at Shillong.
This would be followed by another agitation in the form of a mass casual leave of all the adhoc teachers of the State on September 27 and 28.
Earlier, the members of the FAMASSTA had met the Education Minister R C Laloo at Shillong on the occasion of Teachers’ Day.
Laloo had then announced a raise in the salary of the adhoc teachers to Rs 8000/- a month. Members of the FAMASSTA however, resented this raise terming it as a demeaning amount and which was an insult to the dignity of the hard-working teachers.
The FAMASSTA have also raised the issue of the Govt of Meghalaya’s new Education Policy that was drafted during the tenure of the then Education Minister R G Lyngdoh in 2006.
The FAMASSTA questioned the whereabouts of the policy and said that the eew Education Policy Bill had been discussed and then passed in the Legislative Assembly. They said that they were yet to come to terms with the new policy.
The FAMASSTA threatened to stage a hunger strike if their pleas were not attended to.
The federation also demanded the State Governmentt to abide by the principles enshrined in the Constitution which says, “Equal pay for equal work” or they would take the matter to court.
