Assam providing cash relief only to teachers of RSS-managed schools: SFI

State committee of the students’ federation said the government is discriminating against teachers of other private and venture schools

The Assam State Committee of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) has slammed the Himanta Biswa Sarma government for providing financial relief to teachers of schools managed only by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The SFI’s State committee members told journalists on Wednesday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Assam government has taken up a discriminatory policy of providing one-time financial aid of ₹5,000 from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund only to the teachers of Sankaradeva Shishu Niketan, a chain of educational institutions under Vidya Bharati, a private organisation managed by the RSS.