The indefinite hunger strike of the teachers of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) demanding regularization of their jobs entered the fifth day today. The jobs of SSA teachers were regularized in different states of the country, but despite our repeated memoranda to the government our jobs were not regularized.
On the behalf of report, Secretary of the Tripura SSA teachers Welfare Asssociation, Bastab Debbarma said that we have decided to continue our agitation until our demands are met and 38 teachers had participated in the fast . The State Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty has appealed to the agitating teachers to withdraw their strike on the plea that the Left Front Government was concerned about their problems.
In a report, Chakraborty said that the SSA teachers are getting their salaries and facilities at par with the regular teachers of the state government .Chakraborty said that Lok Sabha M P from Tripura, Jiten Chowdhury raised the issue in Parliament and requested the central government to regularize their jobs, but the central government remained silent on the issue. There are 5,200 SSA teachers in the state.
Meanwhile, the state BJP president Biplab Deb and Tripura Pradesh Congress president, Birajit Sinha visited the site of agitating teachers and expressed their sympathy to the teachers.
