Deborah to meet Prakash

By Our Reporter

SHILLONG, JAN 31: Meghalaya minister in-charge of School Education & Literacy Deborah Marak on Tuesday said she would soon take up with the Centre issues related to the teachers in the state.  “I would be meeting the Union Minister of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Prakash Javadekar on February 4, to discuss various grievances faced by the teachers in the state,” Marak told reporters on Tuesday.

She said that the issues that she wishes to raise before the union minister would also include the ongoing controversy on the Diploma of Elementary Education (D.EL.ED) results declared by the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS).

Her statement came in the wake of the ongoing protests launched by the aggrieved elementary schoolteachers under the banner of the Meghalaya SSA Schools Association (MSSASA) against the alleged “faulty” results by the NIOS.

They have just started their 6-day letter campaign to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal whatsapp seeking his immediate intervention to ensure speedy rectification of the results, which they alleged was incomplete.

The teachers felt the inefficiency of the NIOS to conduct the professional teaching training programme has affected the teachers especially those in SSA schools from being eligible to avail the revised pay announced by SSA-SEMAM.