Guwahati, Nov 20: The All-Assam Non-Teaching Employees’ Association on Thursday urged the state to upgrade non-teaching staff of venture educational institutions to full-fledged government employees, similar to their counterparts in provincialised institutions.

The association, during a press meet, strongly opposed the state government’s move to offer fixed pay to 3,286 non-teaching employees, reiterating that the staff should receive regular scale pay like all other state government employees.

“We urge the Assam government to take up this issue in the upcoming winter Assembly session and regularise all non-teaching employees,” a member of the association said.

They warned that failure to act in the November 25 session would trigger a protest. The association said it is prepared to lau

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