Dimapur, April 21 (MExN): The Nagaland unit of the Congress party has reiterated its stance that the disgrace and corruption in the tainted Education department owes it all to the State’s chief minister and the minister for Education.
The Congress has repeated its demand that the ‘weak’ chief minister take action while also that the Education minister should own moral responsibility for bringing into disrepute and degeneration the state of education in Nagaland.
“Punish the culprit and resolve the problem. The Education minister and chief minister are responsible and answerable to the people. The seriousness of the ongoing indefinite hunger strike by the aggrieved teachers cannot be ignored by the Government any longer,” the Political Affairs Committee of the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee said in a press release received here today.
“The people deserve the right to know a logical conclusion as to who is the culprit and appropriate action should be taken against such culprit to resolve the problem,” stated the Congress PAC’s convenor, K Therie, in the press release.
The Congress said that about 1,090 teachers are demanding reinstatement. “They have not been paid for the last three years. There is opposition to their reinstatement from various NGOs. The government has termed these teachers as ‘bogus’. This is a serious allegation. The meaning of bogus is understood as ‘false’” the NPCC said.
In its findings, the PAC said, there are 1,090 teachers all appointed by the authority of government under the SSA scheme. “The reason of opposition is for not appointing these teachers through free and fair competition. The power of regulating the system and ensuring free and fair competition lies with the government. It is the duty of the minister concerned to ensure free and fair competition which, he has miserably failed to do,” the opposition said.
The party stated further that dragging the teachers into “this disaster” has not only destroyed the future of the teachers and their families but the future generations’ as well. “The Education Minister should own moral responsibility for gross misconduct and he must resign. We find the chief minister helpless in cleaning corruption in most of the issues.”
A Chief Minister should not be so weak, the Congress said. “Government should be a welfare government for the people and the suffering of the people should be attended with humanitarian feelings. The government should have a healing sense for the school children as well as the teachers and their family members.”
