Dimapur, October 31 : The Nagaland Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Teachers's Association (NSSATA) 2010 & 2013 batches consisting of around 2600 teachers will launch its phase II agitation from November 1.
As a display of resentment against the government and to demand fulfilment of its four-point charter of demands, the NSSATA will hold peaceful sit-in protest at the Directorate of School Education (DoSE), NSSATA president Aliba Sangtam and general secretary Thungchamo Lotha said in a release on Monday.
Meanwhile, the Wokha unit of NSSATA has informed that all its members converged at Lotha Tribal Council hall Wokha at 10.30 am on Monday and left for Kohima by NST buses to join the second phase agitation from tomorrow.
The unit held a general meeting at Donbosco Youth Centre Wokha to discuss matter relating to the proposed second phase agitation and expressed their resentment over the non-payment of salary for six months at a stretch.
ANGPTA Zunheboto
The All Nagaland Government Primary Teachers' Association (ANGPTA), Zunheboto Unit, has requested the department concerned to immediately release the pending salaries of SSA and Hindi teachers. It also urges the parties concerned to sit together to chalk out a pragmatic solution in order to avoid the recurrence of this kind of problem in future.
NSF appeals Chief Secy
Drawing the attention of Chief Secretary to the non-payment of salary to SSA and Hindi teachers (CSS), the NSF has appealed to his authority to take the matter with utmost seriousness and address it at the earliest, failing which it warned to resort to its own course of action.
In a representation on Monday, the NSF apprised the Chief Secretary that the teachers employed under SSA Scheme and Hindi teachers (CSS) are working without salary for the past several months in spite of appeals and representations to the government and the department concerned in this regard.
It lamented that when the teaching community is selflessly rendering their services for quality education and improvement of human resources, they are not being paid and made to face untold hardship.
CNTC expresses full solidarity
The CNTC has extended full support to the genuine demands of the aggrieved NSSATA/RMSA/Hindi teachers who are demanding release of their pending salaries. “Teachers under the various central flagship programmes have been suffering greatly and being denied of their basic salary which is a gross violation of human rights,” the CNTC said in a release on Monday.
The release said the CNTC cannot just be a mute spectator to all the injustices and discrimination meted out to the teaching community who are the builders of the nation and who are our own children. It said the State Government cannot keep on giving the usual excuse of “No funds from the Centre”.
“Teachers need to be truly valued and treated with reverence but at present it is just the contrary,” the CNTC said and urged the State Government to release the pending salaries of the aggrieved teachers without delay.
