AGARTALA, Feb 2 (TIWN): Just 2 weeks have left for Tripura's crucial Assembly Election and the SSA Teachers have started to leave the party openly through official letters. Today one active CPI-M member Jagadish Das resigned from party at Kanchanpur saying instead of regularizing, the CPI-M party cadres are giving threats to the SSA Teachers who have demanded for regularization. In the resignation letter the SSA Teacher wrote, "Even though since many years we are working for SSA but we have not been provided with basic facilities. Even after with RTI we wrote to the Govt, but it remained without any effect, rather in CPI-M backed newspaper against SSA all lies and badmouthing were published. Thus after a long deprivation and insults I can't continue to be with the Left".

Throughout the country, the SSA Teachers will be regularized after 31st March as per the Central Govt's notice but Tripura's CPI-M Govt failed to announce anything clearly yet. It has gripped the SSA Teachers with tension that they will lose their jobs after 31st March, 2018.

Recently Finance Minister Bhanu Lal Saha in an interview accepted that SSA teachers are paid on regular basis already in state and from Centre also the regular salary for the teachers are being sent. But in state all the teachers are paid on fixed basis which has led allegation against the Govt for looting lakhs from each teachers per year.

SSA teachers accused Tripura Govt for looting SSA teachers’ salaries years after years. A figure out of the vanished amounts from teachers salaries has been released by SSA teachers saying per year looted amount by Tripura Govt are : Rs. 1,32,684 (Primary Teacher, those who completed 5 years), Rs. 44,010 (Primary Teacher, those who Not completed 5 years). In case of Upper primary those who completed 5 years) Tripura Govt looted Rs. 1,42,206, whereas in case of upper primary (Not completed 5 years) are : 50,000/-.

Upper Primary (5 yrs completed):

1) In 2010-11 in case of Rs. 15000/- the Upper-primary teachers were provided with 9410 rupees and 5590 is vanished. Sometimes Govt gave 13134 vanishing Rs. 1866/-

2)In 2011-12 3 months Govt deprived Rs. 1581 and 3 months Rs. 793

3) In 2013-14  the looted money was recorded for 3 months with 2358 and 3 months with 1387 rupees

4) In 2014-15 3304 rupees were cut in April, May June, whereas 483 rupees were cut in January, Feb, March.

5) In 2015-16 Rs. 1467 in 3 months & Rs. 204 in next 3 months were cut.

6) In 2016-17 every months Rs. 3248 to Rs. 1425 were looted per month.

Upper Primary (Not completed 5 yrs):

1) In 2010-11 from Rs. 940 to Rs. 714 rupees were looted,

2) In 2011-12 also Rs. 874 to Rs. 437 were looted,

3) In 2013-14 from Rs. 1468 to 766 were looted,

4) In 2014-15 the amount of looting by finance dept went upto 2000 rupees.

It was the Upper Primary level teachers, but in case of Primary teachers also Govt showed no mercy. Every month from Rs. 4450, Rs. 1278, Rs. 3007 Rs. 2027 in various figures the fund were looted.

Teachers have demanded to refund the amount with 3 more demands.

Their demands are :

1) For primary and upper primary teachers, teachers training should be implemented as soon as possible,

2)The teachers who died during job tenure, their families should be given Rs. 5 lakhs rupees each and 1 person should be given job from that family,

3)The teachers who completed 60 years as SSA teachers, they should be given Rs. 10 lakhs each,

4)SSA teachers are deprived of full salary, although Central Govt is sending the 100 % salaries. The teachers demanded to diminish the discrimination of salaries with Centre, as the teachers are not even getting pensions.