AGARTALA, Aug 22 (TIWN): Tension has gripped teachers in Tripura after the exposing of the Bill passed in Lok Sabha regrading the compulsory qualifications of teachers. Addressing a press meet BJP leader Santosh Saha said, "Under Monmohon Singh as the PM the 2009's RTE Act rules were adapted saying all the teachers must have necessary qualifications with 50 % marks in Class-12 and DEIED degree for all primary / upper primary teachers by 2015. With the deadline had ended in 2015, the BJP led Central Govt has once again given relaxation for more 2 years after a bill was unanimously passed on Aug 1. Tripura Govt had received a letter on Aug-3 regarding this. But with a strange motive state govt hided the notification".

BJP Spokesperson Ashok Sinha said to the teachers via media, "Please do not come under any trap. Just fill up the forms and complete your incomplete degrees. If you have not passed Class-12 with 50 % then complete it. Now a days, getting 50 % marks have become easy".

In a separate press meet, the SSA teachers led by Bastab Debbarma asked the state govt to help them to complete their incomplete degrees or state will see a Biggest ever protest after Aug-26, if till then no step is being taken.

The Lok Sabha on July-21 passed a Bill that offers untrained teachers teaching in schools time till March 31, 2019, to acquire B.El. Ed (Bachelor of Elementary Education) or D. El. Ed. (Diploma in Elementary Education) qualifications to hold their jobs as teachers.

This was done through an amendment to the Right to Education Act, 2009, as a last chance to such teachers not to lose their jobs. The Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2017 Bill will now have to pass muster in the Rajya Sabha — and get presidential assent after that — to become an Act.

Explaining the rationale for the Bill, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said many new schools had come up in the days of educational expansion under the SarvaShiksha Abhiyan and the RTE, and many teachers who were hired did not have requisite degrees, some having studied only till school. They were given five years to train themselves, and many did, but 5-6 lakh private schools teachers and 2.5-lakh government school teachers still did not have the requisite degrees, the Minister added. “As a last chance, another two years are being given to them with this amendment,” he said.

When the central govt has given the full opportunity to the teachers for completing their B.Ed degrees within 2yrs and the admission must be taken within 2017’s Sept. but Tripura Govt has kept the matter hidden with an unknown reason.

MLA Ratan Lal Nath has called the activity of Tripura Govt as a ‘Crime’.