<p>The Assam government on Tuesday said it will abolish 8,000 vacant posts of school teachers under the education department as a larger number of contractual educators are already working under the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/sarva-shiksha-abhiyan" target="_blank">Sarba Siksha Abhiyan (SSA)</a>.</p>.<p>Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said that the state government, in 2020, had offered a regular pay scale and other benefits to 11,206 contractual teachers working under the SSA in lower primary and upper primary schools.</p>.<p>"In order to maintain rationality against this near-regularisation, the Govt. decided to keep 8000 sanctioned posts of regular teachers vacant to avoid duplicity and financial neutrality," he said in a Facebook post.</p>.<p>The minister said that as these vacant posts have been kept frozen and shall be unfilled for a long period till the retirement of the contractual teachers, the government has considered it "prudent to abolish them for financial discipline".</p>.<p>However, he said that the state government may create posts as and when required owing to an increase in enrolment in the future.</p>
<p>The Assam government on Tuesday said it will abolish 8,000 vacant posts of school teachers under the education department as a larger number of contractual educators are already working under the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/sarva-shiksha-abhiyan" target="_blank">Sarba Siksha Abhiyan (SSA)</a>.</p>.<p>Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said that the state government, in 2020, had offered a regular pay scale and other benefits to 11,206 contractual teachers working under the SSA in lower primary and upper primary schools.</p>.<p>"In order to maintain rationality against this near-regularisation, the Govt. decided to keep 8000 sanctioned posts of regular teachers vacant to avoid duplicity and financial neutrality," he said in a Facebook post.</p>.<p>The minister said that as these vacant posts have been kept frozen and shall be unfilled for a long period till the retirement of the contractual teachers, the government has considered it "prudent to abolish them for financial discipline".</p>.<p>However, he said that the state government may create posts as and when required owing to an increase in enrolment in the future.</p>