SSA teachers march to Meghalaya secretariat over salary enhancement demand

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaOctober 9, 2024

School teachers under the banner of the All Meghalaya Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan School Teachers’ Association (AMSSASTA) on Wednesday took out a protest march to the secretariat to meet the chief minister Conrad K Sangma and education minister Rakkam A Sangma for their necessary intervention into the long pending demand for enhancing their salary by 100 percent. 

However, they were later invited for talks by the cabinet minister and government’s spokesperson Paul Lyngdoh in absence of both chief minister and education minister.

“On reaching the secretariat, we were informed that the chief minister and the education minister were not available. So we have met and discussed our issue with the spokesperson of the government,” president of the association Peter Thyrniang told reporters. 

“He (Lyngdoh) told us that yes the government is aware (of the demand) and that the education minister had already submitted a representation to the chief minister and would again submit his second representation for consideration of the governmen,” he said.

Thyrniang said that the spokesperson had also advised the delegation to also meet the adviser to the education department HM Shangpliang.

“Accordingly, we are going to meet him as he is the adviser to the education department and he knows about our demand for salary enhancement,” he added.

The AMSSASTA has been staging indefinite sit-in-demonstration for the past 9 days, to pressurize the government to enhance the salary of over 13000 SSA teachers in the state. 

“Our agitation will continue till we achieve our demand,” Thyrniang maintained.