CM assures to resolve problem of SSA teachers

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaOctober 23, 2021

Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Saturday assured that the state government will take steps to resolve the problem faced by over 12,500 SSA teachers in the state.

“I would like to assure our teachers that we will do everything in our capacity to try and resolve this at the earliest,” Sangma said while campaigning for the NPP candidate from Mawryngkneng Pyniaid Sing Syiem at Umpling.

The Chief Minister also informed, “As we speak our Additional Chief Secretary education he is in Delhi working with the government of India to release the salaries of the SSA teachers.”

Stating that the SSA teachers have been suffering for a very long time, he however clarified that 90 percent of the salaries of the SSA teachers comes from the government of India while only 10 percent is given by the state government.

“It is a 90:10 funded programme…until unless we don’t get funds from the central government, we are not able to clear the salaries of our SSA teachers and the same has been going on for many years,” he said.

Sangma added that the government of India releases the SSA teachers’ salaries in batches for three months, five months, six months and sometimes even eight months.

“The numbers are so huge that it is not possible for the state government to simply give it out of its pocket especially when our petrol rates are the lowest in the country. So these are the challenges we faced but it does not mean that we don’t care for the SSA teachers,” Sangma said.