Assam cabinet provincialises 419 tea garden schools; to get new teachers

NEW DELHI: The Assam government has provincialised 419 lower primary (LP) schools, two middle English (ME) and one high school managed by the tea gardens, state education minister Ranoj Pegu informed. The schools will receive mid-day meals, free textbooks, and uniforms. The existing teachers in the tea garden managed schools will not be provincialised.

According to an official notification from the school department, two posts of teachers for each LP school, three teacher posts for each ME school and five posts of teachers and one headmaster for each high school will be created. The cabinet had decided in March to provincialise the schools.

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“Following the historic cabinet decision, Assam Govt. has provincialised 419 Tea Garden managed schools. These schools will now receive MDM, Uniform, Free Textbooks and Govt. Teachers. Thanks to HCM himantabiswa for his vision and mission of inclusive development,” Pegu said in a tweet.

Following the historic cabinet decision, Assam Govt. has provincialised 419 Tea Garden managed schools. These schools will now receive MDM, Uniform, Free Textbooks and Govt. Teachers. Thanks to HCM @himantabiswa for his vision and mission of inclusive development.… pic.twitter.com/fHcU97rSaY

— Ranoj Pegu (@ranojpeguassam) April 18, 2023

“In the public interest and in the academic interest of tea garden community, the government of Assam in the Department of School Education is pleased to provinicialise 419 numbers of tea garden managed LP schools, 2 tea garden managed ME schools and 1 tea garden managed high schools with the condition that the services of the existing teachers engaged by the tea garden management will not provincialised. However, these teachers can continue to serve in the same school under the pay role of the concerned tea gardens of the state,” read the official notification.

The department asked the concerned district elementary education officers and school inspectors to ensure proper work relationship between the new and existing teachers. The newly appointed teachers will get facilities by the tea gardens such as in-house training, benefits of capacity building programmes organised by the school department for teachers of other provincialised schools.