AGARTALA, August 29 (TIWN): Three State Govts in country, who deprive their employees in paying salaries as per Central Govt recommendations, deprived RMSA,SSA employees of 8 states including Tripura had formed an organization at Delhi in demand of equal rights on salary, Association of SSA-RMSA teachers of India informed this on a press conference held in Agartala on Friday.In press conference Arvind Rana of SSA-RMSA association told media that in this running year including state Tripura SSA and RMSA teachers Union of Chandigarh, Punjab, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Dadra and Nagar Haveli formed National Level Body of RMSA and SSA teachers union, which aim to work on the regularization of teachers in State and UT’s Education dept. on the basis of the same salary, allowances and service condition similar to other teachers of States.“After the central govt. had issued notification to provide salary on the regualr basis but state govt. has managed to pursuing the contract based salary to the teachers of RMSA and SSA”, said the Arvind Rana.Rana also mentioned the names of the states which deprived the employees in giving salaries.He further informed that MHRD, Govt. of India had issued instructions to the states to vide its rule book that all funds under SSA and RMSA would be given to state govt.’s provided salary, allowances and also the service condition of the teachers shall be similar to other teachers.

He further mentioned that “Many states like Haryana, Himachal, Rajastan, Madhyapradesh, Gujrat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Sikkim, Nagaland, Manipur, Tamilnadu etc. have already appointed teachers under SSA on regular basis. Same is the instruction in case of teachers under RMSA, where MHRD, govt. of India gave clear cut instructions that teachers under RMSA shall be appointed by State / UT Education dept. on regular basis.

“SSA and RMSA Association already met HRD Minister of sSate Upendra Kushwaha, who informed that they never ask state or UT’s to appoint teachers under SSA on contract basis under state SSA society, rather it was instructed to appoint teachers on regular pay cales and service condition in Education dept”, Arvind Rana told media while addressing the press meet. But surprisingly few of the states have well-maintained the tradition of half-payment to its employees, he added.

“MHRD gave clear written instruction to states in 2002 to appoint teachers under SSA on regular basis in Education dept., which was followed by maximum states but due to unknown reason this instruction was not followed in Tripura”, Rana claimed.

However to co- convenor Ajay Sharma stated that they already have met Tripura Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty in this regard on Thursday. However, they pledged to strive for completion of common goals of merging all SSA and RMSA Teachers in State Education Dept. on regular basis as per mandatory norms of SSA, RMSA and Right to Education Act 2009.