Education Minister Lahkmen Rymbui has urged deficit teachers to withdraw their indefinite strike and requested them to come for dialogue as the “government’s is always open”.Buy Maps
In his appeal to the Khasi Jaintia Deficit School Teachers Association (KJDSTA), which is spearheading the strike from Wednesday, Rymbui said a class boycott would hurt students the most.
The minister said the government has kept the teachers informed of what has been done and what will be done.
The Commissioner & Secretary held a meeting last week and a fresh letter was sent to the association’s president and secretary on Wednesday, he said.
Appealing for restraint, he said: “We will not gain anything from this strike, from boycotting classes, because this affects school children. I feel we should not make school children, our own children, suffer loss.”