Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

The Assam government on Tuesday said it will abolish 8,000 vacant posts of permanent school teachers as a larger number of contractual faculty members are already working through the Sarba Siksha Abhiyan (SSA). Opposition parties and student organisations slammed the government claiming that the step is against the interests of vernacular medium schools. Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said that the state government in 2020 had offered a regular pay scale and other benefits such as service tenure up to 60 years of age to 11,206 contractual teachers working under the SSA in Lower Primary and Upper Primary schools. "In order to maintain rationality against this near-regularisation, the Govt. decided to keep 8000 sanctioned posts of regular teachers vacant to avoid duplicity and financial neutrality," he said in a Facebook post. The education minister said that as these vacant posts have been kept frozen and shall be vacant for a long period till the retirement of the contractual teache

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He adds, universal enrollment is first goal of SSA and all efforts are being made to bring all children, including girls, to school