TET teachers divided over job regularization

GUWAHATI: Teachers' Eligibility Test (TET)-qualified teachers of the state, who are staging protests demanding regularization of their jobs, are a divided lot.
While the president of Sodou Asom Prathamik TET Uttirna Sikhyak Samaj, the coordination committee of over 40,000 contractual TET-qualified primary teachers, stepped down on Friday, other leaders of the organization have vowed to continue their pre-announced agitation. On Thursday, Padmalochan Doley, the president of the organization, met education minister Siddhartha Bhatacharya at the state capital following which he changed his stand on job regularization.
"When the discussions were held with the education minister on Thursday, the prime issue of regularising the jobs of contractual teachers was not resolved. So, we can not call off the 'Dispur Gherao' agitation. The movement will go on," said Troloikya Deka, working president of the coordination committee of TET-qualified primary teachers, which is leading the statewide protest.
Doley, however, has accused some senior office-bearers of the union of working 'unilaterally'.