AGARTALA, July 31 (TIWN): With a major jolt Tripura SSA teachers on Monday has revealed biggest scam, in a press conference held in the afternoon ahead of 'Hunger Strike till Death' that will be staged by SSA teachers from tomorrow morning 10 AM. Addressing the press meet, the teachers informed that SSA teachers have already been regularized whereas the notification kept hidden by Tripura Finance Dept, with its ill motive of drawing regular salary of the teachers from centre. However, with valid documents SSA teachers disclosed that they have been regularized in 2015 already and that was accepted by the finance minister Bhanulal Saha when central govt asked the state govt to give details about regular paid salaries. In an RIT filed in 2015 Jyoti Pahwa, Under Secretary to the Govt of India said in the No. F. - 7/ 2016-EE.B, "SSA funds for salary is provided for regular and contract teachers as informed by the State".

Thus the teachers who have been fooled by Tripura Govt saying they are contractual, are going for hunger strike demanding notification of their regularization.

The problem of Tripura Govt is it can not ask the centre to regularize them as already state regularized the teachers and now is sanctioning funds from the centre.

Now question raises, What's stopping Tripura Govt to announce about regularizing the SSA teachers publicly ?

Moreover, SSA teachers claimed in the name of irregular jobs, under SSA, RMSA the state govt is cutting the pockets of teachers, every months that can not be done once the teachers are regularized. 

From Tuesday, since morning 10 AM the teachers will sit in hunger strike for uncertain period of time, in demand of regularization.

 Addressing the media the SSA teachers on Monday afternoon at Agartala Press Club said, "We are ready to die, but will defend our rights".