The state education department on Saturday announced disciplinary actions including no-work-no-pay for all para teachers who will be part of the assembly gherao from March 15 to 19 that wil impact regular classes of students ahead of the upcoming matric exams.

Ekakrit Para Sikshak Sangharsh Morcha (EPSSM), an umbrella outfit of about 60,000 para teachers in the state, have announced the gherao when the house resumes for the budget session to press for their several pending demands such as job regularisation and better pay among others.

The Jharkhand Project Education Council (JPEC) has asked all para-teachers to refrain from protest and has directed district education officers to submit daily attendance reports to initiate action against the teachers.

In a letter to all the districts, JEPC director Sailesh Chaurasia said that the government was already working on many of their demands and directed them to withdraw the stir in the interest of proper functioning of the schools, which reopened for class VII onwards few weeks back, after remaining closed for a year due to covid-19 induced lockdown.

“Whoever remained absent from duty without duly approved leave would be marked as no-work-no-pay and disciplinary action will be initiated,” read the letter, circulated by EPSSM.

Sanjay Dubey, officer bearer of the state unit of EPSSM in a media statement maintained that they will continue with their plan.

“We appeal to the Hemant Soren government to fulfill their promises made to us during the assembly elections in 2019. The previous BJP government headed by ex-CM Raghubar Das wielded lathis on us when we protested for our demands, but before coming to power, Hemant Soren justified our demands and promised to fulfill. Now, it’s time to do so and recall this letter,” he demanded.