The Meghalaya Cabinet on Thursday approved the introduction of a Structured Pay Framework for fixed pay teachers under the Education Department, a long-awaited reform aimed at addressing salary disparities and job insecurity among thousands of teachers across the state. The decision, taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma, is set to benefit Adhoc and SSA teachers who have for years been working under varied pay structures and uncertain service conditions.
Talking to media persons after the Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma said, “Decision that was taken by the cabinet was the proposal for introduction of a structured Pay framework for fixed pay Teachers under the education department.” He said the reform mainly concerns Adhoc teachers and SSA teachers, “mainly numbering approximately 23,099,” who were earlier receiving grant-in-aid, while in the case of SSA teachers, “they were receiving the structure that was proposed from and cleared by the government of India and different structures were being given to different teachers.”
The Chief Minister pointed out that the existence of multiple pay structures had led to prolonged discontent among teachers, noting, “Hence, there has been a demand for a very long time that there should be some kind of structured pay, a frame work should be created and there should be some kind of security in trm of the job for the concern teacher.” He said the government had been engaging extensively with stakeholders, adding, “For the last six months we have been in a discussion with different teachers and different associations and before Christmas we had announced the decision to go ahead with the structured pay frame.”
Explaining why the details were not made public earlier, Sangma said, “the numbers were finalized during that time and I didn’t announced the numbers then because we have not approved it in the cabinet.” He confirmed that the Cabinet has now cleared the proposal, stating, “But we have today approved the same proposal that was there in the cabinet today.”
The Chief Minister said the reform will not be limited to pay alone and will involve broader changes within the education system. “And in the next two months we will work out the nitty grittys of other important intervention that needs to be taken because this is a reforms that we are doing,” he said, adding, “The reform will have multiple aspects, and hence, while we the teachers the structured pay frame work, there are other structures or restructures that will take place within the schools also.”
He said all related measures will be finalised within a defined timeframe, noting, “So all of these will happen in the next 60 days and we will be implementing that new structured pay frame work by 1st April 2026.” The Chief Minister also underlined the significant financial commitment involved, stating, “the total amount that will be spent on on giving the structured pay frame work is appropriately Rs 817 crores.”
Meghalaya Cabinet Approves Structured Pay Framework for 23,099 Teachers, Implementation from April 2026
