Amid Protest Meghalaya Police Clashes With Agitating Teachers in Shillong

Demanding reinstatement, agitating contractual teachers of state-run schools in Meghalaya, who lost their jobs two years ago, clashed with the police when they were stopped from trying to enter the secretariat in Shillong.

Over 800 contractual teachers were terminated two years back after they failed to clear the Meghalaya Teachers Eligibility Test (MTET), and have been protesting since then under the banner of the Meghalaya Government Lower Primary Contractual Teachers’ Association (MGLPCTA).

The teachers were demonstrating outside the main gate of the secretariat, demanding that they be given their jobs back, when the situation escalated.