Nagaland Police Clashes With Agitating Teachers Amid Protest
NDTV
Over 800 contractual teachers were terminated two years back after they failed to clear the Meghalaya Teachers Eligibility Test (MTET).
Demanding their reinstatement, the agitating contractual teachers of state-run schools in Meghalaya clashed with the police on Thursday when they tried 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.
Police allegedly lathi-charged the protesters and hurled tear gas shells as they tried to storm into the state secretariat building.
