AGARTALA, Nov 13 (TIWN): Being left unnoticed even after multiple protests, SSA teachers have begun their "Pen Down Strike" from today with 3 demands. But Education Dept is in slumber, without any motive to sort out the problems. Neither the Education Minister has given any statement urging the teachers for not to go in strike nor any assurance has been given by the Tripura Govt about regulations. Tripura SSA teachers, who are now parts and parcel of the school education system of Tripura, have become almost a pillar of the Education Dept, but even after long 15-17 yrs of service the SSA were not regularized led repeated protests, hungers strikes by the helpless teachers. But till day Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar is not ready to meet the teachers demands and it has been long 7 years atleast that the CM is escaping from the ground of SSA’s regularization.

Amidst teacher crisis, the situation most likely to paralyze the Education system further but the demands of SSAs were never seriously taken by the state govt, led the SSAs to take the decision.

Apart from that SSA teachers are now attacking directly by the ruling party cadres which has generated more queries about the actual intension of the CPI-M Govt. Question is : What is the problem to regularize the SSA teachers, when others states have regularized the SSAs.

Allegation also raised after RTA revealed shocking truths about SSA’s salary-looting by the state govt. It was proven that the SSAs were regularized by the Central Govt with State Govt’s request, but inside state State Govt is not announcing about it and looting the salaries of the teachers, by paying them at the contractual basis.

With all these the Pen Down Strike has begun from today, likely to cause a major faceloss for the ruling govt here.