AGARTALA, September 2 (TIWN): In wake of Tripura High Court’s direction to the state government and the Union Ministry to file affidavit by October 16 over the regularisation of Sharba Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and the Rashtriya Madhyamik Siksha Abhiyan (RMSA) teachers a 2 members delegation team of the Sarva Shikhsha Abhiyan Teachers Welfare Association (SSATWA) visited Tripura were reported to have visited Tripura recently.

The team had met state education minister Tapan Chakroborty and had urged to regularise the teachers and requested him to follow mandatory norms of SSA, RMSA and Right to Education Act, 2009 and merge all teachers working under SSA and RMSA in state education department on regular pay scale, allowances and service conditions.

Chakroborty acknowledged that MHRD had informed the states on January 1, 2014, that no separate SSA Teachers cadre is permissible and all teachers should be appointed by states/UT’s.

The deprived teachers alleged that state government had taken fund providing false statement from Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2014-15 fiscal.  “The amount was sanctioned for 5545 SSA teachers on regular pay scale.

 Even, in the web portal of SSA, the teachers who were recruited on contract basis, were shown as regular”, they claimed.

The HC recently ruled out the government both centre and the state to provide a valid reply in regard of the regularisation of the RMSA and SSA teachers. The next hearing of the case was pegged at October 16.