MUPSTA flays schools for teachers’ pay cut
SHILLONG: The managing committee of schools has drawn flak from the Meghalaya Upper Primary School Teachers Association (MUPSTA) for deducting salaries Upper Primary School teachers. Salaries of the teachers were cut from Rs 1500 to Rs 2000 a month. In a press statement, E.G. War, organising cum-publicity secretary said the state government has sanctioned Rs 16000 to Rs 18000 per month for each Upper Primary school teacher. He said the managing committee should have released an additional honorarium on a monthly basis to the teachers, as according to him, the teachers were still getting a meagre salary. The organisation has warned the managing committees not to deduct salaries from teachers.
Teachers submit memo to Edu Minister
TURA: The All Garo Hills SSA School Teachers’ Association has given the state government time till November 10 to fulfil its demands. In a memorandum addressed to Education Minister Deborah C Marak, the association warned that it would be compelled to resort to democratic agitation if the demands are unheeded by the expiry of the deadline. Some of the many demands of the association include immediate release of pending teachers’ arrears from the year 2016-17, regular and monthly payment of their salaries and its release through personal accounts. While the teachers under different bodies have been making the same demands in the past, response from the government’s side has so far been completely zero prompting them to pursue the matter again.
MLCU holds awareness programmes in city
SHILLONG: The Department of Management and Commerce Studies, Martin Luther Christian University organised a two-day event called Synergy 2017 with Rural Marketing as its theme on November 7 and 8, on the University campus in Nongrah. The aim of the programme is to develop and uplift rural marketing and also for recognising the entrepreneurial opportunities in the rural sector and to enhance these opportunities in the state. The programme saw the participation of St Anthony’s college, University of Technology and Management, ICFAI University, Umshyrpi College and Shillong College. Various competitions were organised including debate, quiz, role playing and new product development. The head of the department Dr Rupa Bakor Kharshiiing said that the rural markets offer an inevitable and exciting opportunity for both expansion and sustainable growth and that it is imperative that organisations actively develop an inclusive strategy to include rural consumers in their business offerings. The Department of English and Communication through students of the 5th Semester Bachelor of Psychology, Department of Counselling Psychology, on Wednesday organised an awareness programme entitled “Strengthening bonds through awareness”, with the parents of slum dwellers that have been recognised by the Reach Shillong Ministry. The objective of the event was to create a conscious awareness among parents on the importance of a child in a parent’s life and the need to understand their child’s psychosocial development. The awareness programme was organised in collaboration with the Reach Shillong Ministry at the premises of the Sadhu Sundar Singh Church, Motphran and was attended mostly by the mothers.