Thapa urges CM to settle temp teachers' issues

SNS, DARJEELING. 17 May 2022 :  Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM)) president Anit Thapa has written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, raising issues of regularsation of non-teaching staff and volunteer teachers along with establishment of a separate Regional School Service Commission.

"A majority of primary, secondary and higher secondary schools in t he GTA area are functioning with the aid of voluntary teaching and non-teaching staff. Most of  these qualified voluntary teachers have been working on meagre salary for many years now and running from pillar to post to get their jobs regularised. These teaching and non-teaching staff have given the prime years of their life to the schools and students. 

Their long pending issues should be addressed, and justice be delivered to them,"  the BGPM president says in the letter he sent today. 

The letter adds that the problem of volunteer teachers had been there since the erstwhile Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC).

"I have been taking up the  issue that there should be a system for employment since many years now. which is the reason I have written to the Bengal CM today, taking up these issues." Mr Thapa said.  

"Due to the non-existence of the Regional School Service Commission, a huge pool of  highly qualified youths is not able to apply or face any competitive examination in the field of education. Therefore, I also  request your office to prioritize this matter and duly set  up a separate Regional School  Service Commission, along  with resolving the issue of  volunteers on a priority basis," Mr Thapa says in the letter. Mr Thapa said he had faith on the CM and that she would take the the issues seriously.