AGARTALA, Aug 23 (TIWN): Tripura Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty has denied the allegation of media and BJP that intentionally the Govt had hide the letter of MHRD about the 2 years of deadline to complete teachers' necessary degrees. Chakraborty said the Govt was confused about what to do after the letter came. Question raises, if all the states' education depts can understand the letter why Tripura Govt couldn't ? But the matter turned critical when Tripura Govt was sat silent and didn't announced about the letter just because of their so called 'confusion'. BJP spokesperson Ashok Sinha raised said, “The intention of Tripura Govt is really hard to understand. When state govt was crying for relaxation, then it was blaming the central govt. But when relaxation is given the state is not taking any action”. Is Manik Sarkar's dept is too ignorant to understand a letter from the central within the gap of 20 days ?

However, 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.