Non-adhoc teachers demand grant-in-aid

TURA: The All Garo Hills Non-Adhoc Secondary and Higher Secondary School Teachers’ Association (AGHN-ASHSSTA) has once again raised the demand, this time with Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, for additional grant-in-aid for the newly accorded non-adhoc secondary and higher secondary schools in the state.
In the memorandum to Conrad, the association informed that in all the non-adhoc secondary and higher secondary schools of Garo Hills, only some funds are provided as grant-in-aid to Science teachers while the rest, including the principal, are deprived of the same from the government.
Earlier, a similar memorandum with a demand on the same lines was submitted to the then-education minister, Deborah Ch Marak.
The association has demanded that all teachers of such schools be provided grant-in-aid irrespective of the recognition of the institution. It has also demanded that the same financial aid is given to teachers of higher secondary schools teaching in the Science, Arts and Commerce streams.