Botika A Sumi
Advisor ANPSTA, Sitimi town
The recent statement of the Advisor for School Education & SCERT Dr Kekhrielhoulie Yhome has drawn flak reasonably from the particular section i.e. the deserving trained teachers who have been anxiously waiting for a free and fair conduct of recruitment by the concerned Dept. for a period of almost eight years with no advertisement till date. Amidst the long wait nearing a decade with the hope that our teacher training will not go in vain but have a fair mode of recruitment one day or the other is what keeps inspiring the requisite trained teachers so as be recruited and give their best efforts in moulding and shaping the students carrier, however it is disheartening and surprising for the trained teachers whose hopes and dreams have been shattered by the recent statement of the Advisor for School Education.
Regardless of the appointments in the past several years for the post of Primary Teachers why didn’t the concerned Department or for that matter the concerned Minister have the audacity to check or put a halt to backdoor appointees, it is not surprising that a mere untrained teacher with a meticulous political lineage always surpass or gets recruited be it in any department, and the rest deserving candidates with no political anchor have to always bear the brunt of dejection at the cost of political flattery which has become a harmonious trend. The sacrifices and the cost upon which the trained teachers had incurred to undergo the requisite teachers training for several years with an arrays of hope that equality in recruitment would prevail had been the hallmark of our vision for an equitable representation into a humble profession, however the insincerity, political endeavour, greed, favouritism, nepotism, these factors sums up to a great disadvantage for the less fortunate through backdoor means which is the root cause of excessive undeserving appointees. Had the concerned dept. or the concerned Ministers been more sincere in not floating a particular department through unfair means and exercised immaculate wisdom for the upcoming generation to soar through honest means, the well deserving candidates and trained teachers belonging to a poorer section of the society with no medium of support to fend for their wellbeing would also hold a heart of gratitude.
As it has been precisely aired to debar the Sumi and Ao tribes for an indefinite period of Ten years from the post P/T recruitment, the concerned Advisor should also ponder about the future of the trained teachers? Won’t the trained teachers overage by the period of Ten years? Or would they be given age relaxation after expiry of these terms? As they preferred to take up teaching profession and undergone rigorous training for several years, won’t their labour go in vain? Is it not undermining the right to equitable representation through meritorious means irrespective of the number on which ever tribes have been appointed the highest or lowest? The blatant discourse of debarring candidates on tribal lines is a rejection to the fundamental rights of its citizens to equal representation through meritocracy, as such despite of which ever tribes has been humongously appointed, would it not be honourable to recruit through meritocracy? And If such measures were to be amended concerning only a particular department, would it not be an equitable and honourable revolution if the government of the day also envisages on every departments so as to not draw differences on tribal lines and have equal representation in every department for the fraternity, progress and posterity.
