SHILLONG, OCT 31: Claiming that the state government has turned a deaf ear to demands pending for almost two years, deficit school teachers in Khasi and Jaintia Hills on Saturday said they will intensify their agitation.
Khasi Jaintia Deficit School Teachers’ Association president Boswell Pala said the executive committee of the Association met managing committees of different deficit schools to share its stand on issues plaguing the deficit system.
The meeting, he said, drew an overwhelming response.
Pala listed non-implementation of Centralised Provident Fund at 10 percent, with contribution still stuck at 8 percent, delay in DA enhancement and arrears, NPS, the 2023 and 2026 pension schemes which the Association has rejected, alleged manipulation in reconstitution of the Board of Trustees, and recruitment to deficit posts.
On DA, he accused the government of going back on its assurance.
“They told us that we would get the DA enhancement, the DA arrears before the Puja holidays. Now, another holiday will be coming up, we still don’t get that DA enhancement, DA arrears,” Pala said.
He said the Association had submitted its charter of demands to the Chief Minister and had also taken mass casual leave, but the response received on October 8 was not satisfactory.
“We have just had the meeting between the EC of the KJDSTA and the different school managing committees, and I am quite honoured, in fact, quite humbled to say that the response was simply overwhelming,” Pala said.
“The managing committees are quite supportive of our fight, of our struggle and they wish us all the best,” he added.
Pala said the exact form of agitation will be finalised by the executive committee.
“We will not relent, we will only intensify from now on,” he said.
