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Guwahati : While the entire nation celebrated “Teachers’ Day’, thousands teachers in Assam on Wednesday observed Sikshak Pratarana Divas (Teachers’ Betrayal Day) and boycotted Teachers’ Day celebrations.
Demanding provincialisation of the venture schools and regularisation of the services of teachers, over 3000 teachers from different districts of the state on Wednesday had marched to the Raj Bhavan in Guwahati.
In protest against the non-regularisation of over 50,000 teachers in 7,771 venture schools, the Asom Sikshak Karmachari Aikyo Mancha took out the protest rally.
The teachers shouted against the BJP-led Assam government for their failure to fulfil the promises made during the assembly election campaign.
Heavy security personnel were deployed in the Raj Bhavan road to stop the protesters.
Teachers of venture schools are demanding that, the state government should take appropriate steps to regularize their jobs.
It is to be mentioned that, the Assam government had provicialized over 9,000 venture schools under the Assam Venture Educational Institutions (Provincialisation of Services) Act, 2011 and the state government had amended the act from 2012 to 2017, but over 50,000 teachers have been left out from the act and they have to live without salaries.
The BJP-led Assam government had introduced the Assam Education (Provincialisation of Services of Teachers and Reorganisation of Educational Institutions) Amendment Bill, 2018, which was passed in the Assam Assembly in April this year.
As many as 200 venture teachers had committed suicide across the state after they deprived from the state government.
Dr Sirumoni Baruah, president of Asom Sikshak Karmachari Aikyo Mancha said that, while the entire nation has celebrated Teachers’ Day, thousands venture school teachers have participated in the protest rally after they deprived year by years from the government.
The teachers have threatened to take more aggressive agitation if the state government not fulfil their demands
“We have served as a teacher past 20-30 years, but we are still deprived. The Assam government had adopted the provincialisation act in 2011 and it was amended in 2012, 2013, but the teachers were not covered by the act. After the Gauhati High court verdict, the government had again introduced another act,” Dr Sirumoni Baruah said.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
