Following their vocal protest on the Statehood Day on November 15, Chief Minister Raghubar Das sent out a clear warning to para teachers to remove them from service. Around 67000 para teachers are on indefinite strike since then demanding primarily regularisation of their job.

The CM while terming the protesting teachers as ‘goons’, said that the Government would in no way duck before their ‘unreasonable’ demands. “I am not going to tolerate the goondagiri done by para teachers on the Statehood day celebration. It was not any personal programme of Raghubar Das! Those who pelted stones on the day of Birsa Munda’s birth anniversary cannot be a teacher. We have a huge army of unemployed youths who would be recruited to replace para teachers if they do not return to their job and start attending schools,” said Raghubar Das at Medini Nagar on Monday. He on the occasion also outrightly rejected the demand of regularisation terming it impossible. “Making their services permanent is not possible. Though, the Government in phased manner can consider their other demands. We cannot spend hard earned public money meant for development of poor on the salary of stone palters,” said the CM.

He went on alleging Opposition’s hand behind the protest and sent out a clear warning to the lot. “Para teachers are behaving like workers of political parties. I know such people are less in number but their act would place them into Hotwar jail. Why the parties misguiding them now did not regularise them when they were in power,” asked Raghubar Das.

The CM while appealing to the teachers to drop their agitation and resume teaching said that their undemocratic way of protest would prove dearly to them. “The Government is ready to look into their genuine demands in a phased manner. We have done that as well when welfare fund was constituted and pay was revised. But I am not going to yield before hooliganism. I would say to you that return to your job else you would have to face so many sections (under penal codes) that you would not be able to count,” said he.

The CM taking a dig on Hemant Soren said that the present Government was not a spineless Government like it was under the JMM leader running with the support of Independents instead it was here to ensure development with stability.

Para teachers demanding regularisation of their service in the lines it was done in Chhattisgarh have boycotted schools across the State prompting the Department to issue notice setting November 20 as deadline to return. The notice issued also mentioned that new recruitment process would be started to replace the agitating para teachers with TET qualified candidates and by deploying retired teachers.

In the meanwhile sensing the gravity of situation, State BJP chief and party MP Laxman Gilua has said that he would consult the CM to revise honorarium of the para-teachers. “The party is in favour of respectable payment of para-teachers. I would talk to the Chief Minister in this regard,” said Gilua.