SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, July 13: A Joint Action Committee of 42,000 assistant (Para) teachers of the state has announced to boycott the Welfare Fund meeting called by the Jharkhand Education Project Council in July.
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The Joint Action Committee, the frontal organization of 42,000 assistant teachers of the state, today said that whenever agitations are announced for implementation of the agreement, the JEPC calls a Welfare Fund meeting to divert the attention of teachers. “So, this time the Joint Action Committee has resolved to boycott the July 15 meeting and make the chief minister’s house gherao on July 20 a success,” it said.
State body president and one of the members of the joint Action Committee Siddique Sheikh said that Assistant (Para) teachers have known benefit from Welfare Fund only through the newspapers for the last 10 years but got nothing so far as the department has not decided contribution of teacher and benefit from fund so far.
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“At the last meeting of the Welfare Fund, the Joint Action Committee had proposed to distribute Rs 10 crore interest money of Welfare Fund among retired and deceased teachers’ families but that has not been implemented so far. So, there is no worth attending the meeting on July 15,” said Siddique Sheikh.
In 2021, the then-education minister Jagarnath Mahto signed an agreement with the Para Teachers Association (now Assistant Teachers Association) over demands. But not a single of them was implemented after his death, he added.
Joint Action Committee members Binod Tiwari, Binod Bihari Mahto, Sanjoy Dubey, Wrishikesh Pathak, Sintu Singh, Vikash Kumar Choudhary, Narottam Singh Munda, Suman Kumar, Niranjan Kumar, Belal Ahmed, Sushil Pandey Bhagwat Tiwari, Virendra Roy, Shakil Ahmed have jointly called boycott of the meeting.