Education department staring at another teachers’ agitation

Dimapur, April 30 (EMN): A group of government teachers –appointed as ad hoc employees since 2015 – has served the state government with May 11 deadline to regularise their employment. The ultimatum addressed to the advisor of School Education by the ‘All Nagaland ad hoc teachers group 2015’ was made available to the press on Monday. It stated that its members, 1166 teachers, have been working with ‘utmost dedication’ for the past 8-9 years for a ‘meagre fixed salary’ of INR 6700 for primary school teachers and INR 8400 for graduate teachers. “...it is in full knowledge of the Education department that we the ANATG members had fulfilled all the criteria’s, (sic) terms and conditions directed to us by taking required professional trainings, suitability test conducted by the department on 20th May 2017, gone through document spot verification (sic) on 22nd May 2017 and got clearance from the P&AR department and awaiting cabinet approval. “...despite our services being rendered for 8-9 years with the above mentioned fixed pay salary, some posts of teachers who were appointed after 1st July 2017 were granted scale pay,” it stated. Therefore, it stated, the ‘aggrieved 1166 teachers shall abstain from work and start exercising our fundamental rights in the form of protests and agitations’ if their demand were to go unfulfilled.