Meghalaya Govt rejects agitating school teachers' demand for

The Meghalaya government today rejected the demand of agitating school teachers of over 4,700 government-aided schools about their pay be equated to government schools.
The teachers, who had stayed out of schools since August 22, demanded their salary be equated with government schools across the state or what was called provincialisation.
The state government on the other hand has assured to come up with a policy decision to further improve the working conditions and services of the teachers within six months.
Chief Secretary K S Kropha chaired a high level meeting of the education department with leaders of the teachers under the banner of the Joint Action Committee of All Teachers' Associations of Meghalaya (JACATAM).

Education Commissioner and Secretary D P Wahlang said "We have told the agitating teachers that provincialisation of services in one go is not possible due to resource constraints."
During the course of discussion, JACATAM leaders were also requested to take the role of the various school managing committees (SMCs) into consideration as they were the appointing authorities of the teachers and not the state government.
The JACATAM today partially suspended their agitation following the talks with the government.