Promod Boro hands over appointment letters to 2160 BTC education dept employees

KOKRAJHAR: Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) chief Promod Boro today handed over appointment letters to as many as 2,160 teachers and non-teaching employees of newly-povincialised educational institutions of the four districts under Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR).

Appointment letters were distributed to teachers and employees of a number of schools and colleges of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri districts at the BTC Secretariat Field in Bodofa Nwgwr here. The education department of BTR organised the event.

Among those who received appointment letters were 443 employees and teachers of high schools, higher secondary schools, senior secondary schools and 1,559 teachers and employees of elementary, lower primary and upper primary schools.

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Appointment letters were also distributed among 158 employees and teachers of colleges under the BTR.

The ceremony was attended by Kokrajhar Lok Sabha member Naba Kumar Sarania, BTR executive members and member of BTC.

In poll-bound Assam, the state government has been on a documents distribution spree, be it land holding certificates or appointment letters. It scripted a new record handing over appointment letters of over 29,000 teachers at a central programme at Sarusajai Sports Complex in Guwahati on February 5. Few days earlier, the government handed over appointment letters to 4511 teachers in another programme at Guwahati.

Handing over appointment letters, state education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma allayed fears of the shortly superannuating teachers saying that everybody would be entitled to gratuity of at least Rs 10 lakh on retirement.

Boro today said there were cases in which teachers’ families have been handed over appointment letters posthumously today. He said at a couple of teachers appointed today have passed away over the past month.