SHILLONG, SEPT 25: The state government has decided to create a corpus fund of Rs 78.07 crore to ensure uninterrupted flow of funds for the implementation of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) especially in regards to the payment of salary to the teachers.
Replying in the Assembly here on Tuesday, education minister Lahkmen Rymbui said, “In order to mitigate this chronic financial debacle, the state government is taking this bold initiative to create a corpus fund of Rs 78.07 crore so as to maintain the uninterrupted flow of fund due to delay in receiving funds from government of India specially with regards to payment of salary to teachers.”
According to him, the department has been implementing the Central sponsored SSA and RMSA (Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan) in the best of its capacity.
“However due to the delay of fund release by the Central government, the State government could not release the salary of teachers from April this year onwards. Similarly every year, the same financial constrains are being repeated leading to recurring liabilities towards teachers’ salary,” Rymbui said.
A total of 2,907 lower primary and 2,232 upper primary schools have been opened under SSA in Meghalaya and the monthly salary for each SSA teacher of lower primary schools is Rs 19,044 and Rs 20,493 for each SSA teacher of upper primary schools.
The state had last week received around Rs 132 crore from the centre under SSA scheme which include various components including salary.
By Our Reporter
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