SHILLONG: The Joint Action Committee of All Teachers’ Association in Meghalaya (JACATAM) has given a April second week deadline to the State Government to invite them for discussion on the status of the proposed provincialization of services of teachers in the State.
Informing this here on Monday JACATAM chairman ED Nongsiang said the JAC was supposed to meet the Government in March, but the latter sought some more time and assured a meeting in April.
Nongsiang said that a delegation from the Education Department had visited the Southern States of Tamil Nadu and Kerala to conduct a comparative study on the feasibility of the proposed exercise.
“The Government delegation has collected some vital inputs on the steps taken by other states to provincialise the service of school teachers,” the JACATAM chairman said.
He said that the Government delegation came back after conducting the comparative study sometime in February last week.
“The Government is supposed to brief the teachers on its findings before submitting the proposal for the provincialisation of their services to the Government,” Nongsiang said.
He also expressed resentment over the failure of the State Government to keep up with its promise of timely releasing the salaries of school teachers.
Nongsiang said that the teachers under the deficit pattern in East Khasi Hills have not received their salaries for the month of Ferbruary even as salaries of different categories of Adhoc teachers are also to be released in the district since January.
