Shillong, August 19: The All Meghalaya SSA School Teachers Association (AMSSASTA) central body has taken a decision to suspend the proposed sit-in-demonstration which was to be held in the capital city on August 21, concerning the non release of the teacher’s salary for the past four months.
Addressing reporters on Saturday, Lasforious Marngar AMSSASTA president said, “We had earlier held a general executive committee meeting to discuss on the silence of the state government over our salary which is left pending to be released for the month of April till July and we had set an ultimatum to the government to release the salary before August 20.”
He said that the association had planned to hold sit-in-demonstration in different district of the state on August 21 if the government fails to realize their demand.
In this connection, the association had also submitted a memorandum to the Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on the grievances encountered by the teachers due to the nonpayment of salary for the past four months on August 13, this month.
According to him, UP school teacher’s salary from Rs. 20, 493 has been reduced to Rs, 20, 000 and for LP teachers their salary has been reduced from Rs. 19,943 to Rs. 15, 000.
He however said, “In our discussion with the Chief Minister on August 16, he informed that the state government will bear the additional expenditure so that the salary of the teachers will remain the same.”
He said that the Chief Minister had also urged them (teachers) to remain patient till the end of this month for the release of their salary.
“The Chief Minister had told us that he will try his level best to release the teacher’s salary hence we have decided to suspend the sit-in-demonstration which was scheduled for August 21,” he said.
He informed that this decision was taken by all the members of the association from different district of the state.
“However if the government fails to deliver on their promise we will have to take other course of action to pressure them in delivering our demands,” he said.
