Guwahati, May 9: Lower primary school teachers in Assam have threatened to launch an agitation from tomorrow if they do not get salaries according to the revised scale.

The All Assam Lower Primary School Teachers' Association in a statement today said the first week of May has passed but the state government was yet to pay salaries to lower primary teachers. According to the Seventh Pay Commission, all head teachers of lower primary schools and all graduate-level teachers are supposed to get extra grade pay.

"Not a single teacher has got salary for April. We don't have any option but to launch a democratic protest. The government has failed to fulfil rules and regulations of the pay commission," said Ratul Chandra Goswami, secretary of the association.

The association alleged that about 500 lower primary students of Bengali-medium schools in Kamrup (metro) district have not received the chief minister's special scholarship this year and they are yet to get their last year's scholarship exam results. The students have also not got their scholarship amounts for 2010 and 2011.

The Asom Sikshak Karmachari Aikya Mancha today demanded the release of salaries for teachers in schools which were recommended under the Assam Venture Educational Institutions (Post-Provincialisation) Act 2011 and its 2012 amendment from January 1, 2013.

Stating that 32,538 teachers in venture schools have been deprived of salaries even after being selected for provincialisation, the Mancha demanded amendment of the Assam Education (Teacher Service Provincialisation and Institutional Reorganisation) Act, 2017, in the Assembly session.

It demanded creation of provisions in the act for including all venture educational institutions registered under the 2011 act and pay the salaries. It also demanded imposition of the same educational and professional eligibility to all teachers.

The Mancha criticised the use of the term "tutor" for those who do not get salaries according the new pay scale.

It said according to the Right to Education Act, 2009, a teacher should not be called a tutor.