Days after the Tripura High Court directed the state government to grant regular pay scales to TET-qualified teachers earlier engaged under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) scheme, contractual teachers working under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) have announced a mass deputation to the Directorate of School Education on November 12.

The teachers, under the banner of the Tripura Samagra Shiksha Karmachari Sangha (TSKSS) — affiliated to the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) — demanded the immediate withdrawal of the Special Leave Petition filed by the state government in the Supreme Court against the High Court’s earlier order. Addressing a press conference in Agartala, TSKSS leaders alleged that the state government had failed to fulfil its pre-poll promise of regularising contractual employ

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