NONGSTOIN: The Meghalaya SSA Schools Association West Khasi Hills District Unit has served a six day deadline on the State government effective from February 5 to fulfill all their demands which have been pending for long.
Addressing a press conference during a sit-in demonstration here on Wednesday, H. Marthong, adviser and Francis Wanniang, president of the association, informed that the Association had made several pleas to the District Mission Co-ordination (DMC) SSA, to release the pending salary of three months but there has been no response from the competent authorities.
The sit-in demonstration was attended by hundreds of SSA teachers from across West Khasi Hills demanding the DMC of West Khasi Hills to immediate release their pending salaries.
A rally, starting from Free Morning School, Nongstoin, was organised as a prelude to the sit-in demonstration at the Deputy Inspector of School office compound. Members of the Association have also demanded regular salary for all LP teachers in West Khasi Hills as had been done in other district of Meghalaya.
The Association also asserted that the school teachers in the district have decided not to extend any help in distributing Iron Folic medicines to the students as directed by the State Education department.
“We are meant to educate the students not to distribute medicines. It is the duty of the Health department to give medicines; besides, if anything happens to them (students) we are the ones who would be blamed,” the president of the Association said.
The Association, later, arrived at a decision to demand the government to release all the pending salaries of the SSA teachers within February 10 failing which the teachers will close down the SSA office at Nongstoin.
