SHILLONG:
The state government on October 21 assured that it will try to release the salary of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) teachers before Christmas.
The president of the Meghalaya SSA Schools’ Association (MSSASA), Aristotle C Rymbai, told the press after meeting with Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong.
“We have also discussed the release of salary to SSA teachers for the months of September, October and November before Christmas. He (Tynsong) assured us to take up the matter with the department concerned and the government will do its best to get the salary of SSA teachers released before Christmas,” Rymbai said.
Rymbai said the meeting was the third after July 21 meeting, which was chaired by the deputy chief minister in presence of officials from the education department.
He said the meeting also discussed at length the long pending demands of SSA teachers which includes implementation of a quarterly system for payment of SSA teachers’ salary, to constitute the State Education Commission to address the grievances of SSA teachers.
“With regard to this, the Dy CM informed the association that the department concerned had done the needful and now left is to get it approved by the cabinet which will be held probably by the first week of November,” he added.