Assam govt extends contracts of nearly 50000 teachers to 60 years of age

A day after the results of the HSLC 2020 was declared, the Assam government on June 7^th, 2020 has extended the contracts of 46,150 contractual teachers working across the state.

The teachers will get all the benefits at par with the government rules from now onwards, Assam Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on June 7^th, 2020.

Addressing a press conference, a day after the results of HSLC 2020 were published, here in Guwahati, the minister informed that the contractual teachers will get their salaries, increments, dearness allowance and other facilities equal to the government teachers.

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The state has 29,701 TET teachers under Axom Sarba Siksha Abhiyan Mission, 11,206 state pool teachers and 5243 High School teachers, informed the minister.

Moreover, Sarma added that the tenure of teachers’ services has been extended to 60 years of age. “Hence, it can be said that now there is no difference between the contractual teachers and the government teachers in the state. Though we cannot regularize their services, we have tried to give them all facilities those the government teachers have been availing to date,” he said.

It may be mentioned that the state has witnessed sporadic protests by the TET teachers and the contractual teachers over the years demanding regularisation of their jobs and demanding their salaries along with several other issues.

Meanwhile, he said that the teachers cannot not apply for transfer without completing 10 years of service at the first place of posting. “The Governor has approved the act,” he said while adding that the government has made Assamese as a compulsory subject in all schools irrespective of government and private from Class I to Class X.

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