Sonwal urges teachers to instil good qualities in students

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today urged primary school teachers to instil good qualities in students from a nascent stage.
"Teachers have the big responsibility of building good citizens and primary school teachers are agents of change who can instil good qualities in students from a nascent stage", Sonowal said during a function organised for the ceremonial distribution of appointment letters to teachers.
Cleanliness, discipline, punctuality are important traits that teachers need to inculcate in students to create a better society, he said.
"For building a society based on equality and to meet modern day challenges like corruption and increasing crimes, the education system must produce citizens with high moral values and integrity," Sonowal said.

He urged teachers to take their duty as a service to the society and not as a mere job.
Appointment letters were given 4823 assistant teachers, 2688 Teachers in lower primary and 2135 Teachers in upper primary, recruited through Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) in the primary schools of the state.

A One Day Orientation Programme for Newly Recruited Teachers of Elementary Education was also organised by Sarba Siksha Abhiyan, Assam in collaboration with Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University.
Swacch Vidyalaya Puraskar were also distributed to ten schools of the state in recognition of excellent sanitation and hygiene practices in the school campuses.

Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced on the occasion that the government would regularise all 88,571 TET qualified teachers in a phased manner and all newly recruited teachers would be able to draw salary as per the 7th pay commission recommendations.