ANTAG 2015 Batch rejects office memo; iterates regularisation

Dimapur, Sep. 6 (EMN): Giving another twist to the endless controversy in the education department, the All Nagaland Adhoc teachers’ group – ANATG-2015 Batch has rejected an office memorandum issued by the state government dated Aug. 29 which enhanced the ‘fixed pay’ of the ad hoc teachers and reiterated that their sole demand to, and wish from, the state government is ‘regularisation’ of their service.
A letter addressed to the principal secretary, school education by the ANTAG – 2015 Batch President, Ruguotsolie and General Secretary, Pekato Zhimomi stated that the 1166 ANTAG – 2015 batch members, after learning that the state government ‘has generously decided to enhance our fixed pay salary to double fixed pay salary’, decided to reject the ‘Office Memorandum NO: CAB/2013 (Pt) dated Kohima the 29th August 2018’.

Saying that they came to know of the office memo only on Sep. 3, 2018, it stated that “the enhancement of fixed pay salary has been enforced by the Government without any considerations of our sole demand which has been time and again made known to the govt. ie. regularisation.

It mentioned that, during the time of their agitation, the state government ‘sadistically proposed’ them for the scale of pay at the meeting held in the Directorate of School Education, but ‘which was sadly denied by the Government of Nagaland in the Press media the next day’.

Saying that the government has granted ‘scale of pay’ to the graduate and primary teachers appointed w.e.f. 1-7-2017, it asserted that ‘enhancing the meagre fixed pay salary of GTs & PTs is an appeasement of the injustice to the ad hoc teachers who have been serving since prior to 31st December 2012 with a salary of INR 8400/- PM( GT) and INR 6700/-PM( PT)’.

It even said that the 1166 teachers had appeared the ‘suitability test for regularization and not for enhancement of fixed pay salary to double fixed pay salary or for scale of pay’ and reiterated their demand for regularisation of service.

Demanding that the same yardstick should be applied to all the employees under the same department, the letter stated that if those appointed under the same category w.e.f 1-7-2017 were granted scale of pay, it asked the argued “if the later appointees are more justified for better salary”.

It asserted that granting scale of pay to those incumbents appointed after 1-07-2018 as discriminatory in nature as it clearly confirms that the teachers appointed prior to 31st Dec. 2012 are less competent in delivering the same quality of service to the students.

“In the light of the above stated accounts and facts, the ANATG-2015 Batch once and for all rejects the enhancement of fixed pay salary and for which we earnestly appeal our esteemed authority to promptly do the needful,” the letter demanded.