Shillong (Meghalaya), May 06: The Meghalaya government has cleared 100% withdrawal of Centralized Provident Fund accumulations for retired teachers and lecturers at aided schools and colleges, while putting wider rollout of the contentious CPF Scheme, 2026 on hold until the High Court delivers its verdict.
The decision came out of a meeting convened by the Education Department with the Meghalaya College Teachers’ Association, Khasi Jaintia Deficit School Teachers’ Association, Board of Trustees members, and State Bank of India officials tasked with implementing the Meghalaya Non-Government School and College Employees Centralized Provident Fund Scheme, 2026.
Commissioner & Secretary Vijay Kumar Mantri said SBI has been instructed to submit detailed CPF statements of all retired employees by May 10. The statements will be verified by the respective Directorates, after which authorization will be issued enabling eligible retirees to approach SBI and withdraw the full amount standing in their accounts.
Retired schoolteachers seeking to opt out must submit an undertaking to the District School Education Officer. College lecturers must submit theirs to the Directorate of Higher & Technical Education.
The relief for retirees comes amid strong opposition to the 2026 scheme from deficit teachers, who have dismissed it as a “fake CPF” and demanded a return to the 2023 draft. More than 30,000 employees of non-government schools and colleges fall under the scheme’s ambit.
During the meeting, MCTA representatives declined detailed comment, citing the matter’s sub judice status before the Meghalaya High Court. KJDSTA pointed to the absence of Garo Hills representatives and argued that current discussions should be limited to deficit teachers and lecturers. Responding to the concern, the department will convene another round of consultations with deficit staff from across the state to broaden participation.
The All-Meghalaya Primary School Teachers’ Association requested awareness programmes on the scheme’s provisions and operations. The department welcomed the suggestion and said sensitization drives would be taken up for all stakeholders.
Mantri reiterated that implementation and operationalization of the CPF Scheme will await the High Court’s outcome. Until then, only the withdrawal window for retirees has been opened.
The decision offers immediate relief to hundreds of superannuated employees who had been unable to access their full CPF corpus, while signaling that the government will not push the new scheme without wider consensus and judicial clarity.
