The government is to review and “examine pros and cons” of the deployment of teachers that was effected recently as part of the School Education department’s reinstatement/regularization of “doubtful” schoolteachers. The state Cabinet has considered the opposition of a number of students’ and civil organizations who had denounced the reinstatement of the teachers over reasons of “linguistic” constraints.
A Cabinet minister said Sunday evening that the government decided to ‘keep in abeyance’ the July notifications issued by the School Education department for further study. However, the government leader said on condition of anonymity, the envisaged review is only to examine issues associated with the posting and deployment of the teachers, vis-à-vis areas or district and not the integrity of the teachers’ appointment themselves.
Earlier during July 19-20, the department had floated full-page advertisements notifying of the government’s decision to retain or regularize more than 1, 100 graduate and undergraduate government teachers whose appointment were found questionable and of “doubtful validity” by the Vigilance Commission’s Special Investigation Team (SIT).
The leader said that the Cabinet took note of the opposition from various civil and students’ organization that had cited ‘linguistic constraints’, that is, teachers posted in areas of other tribal linguistic communities. He cited an instance that a teacher from a tribe posted into areas of another tribe would pose “linguistic problems” in imparting education. Therefore, the Cabinet leader said, the government wants the department to ‘find out’ and ‘study the pros and cons’ of the matter. For that purpose, the Cabinet decided to keep the notifications ‘in abeyance’ to facilitate the department time to examine it and “work out modalities”, he said.
At the time of filing this report, Director of School Education Khevito Sema said he has yet to receive the official order notifying about the lists to be kept in ‘abeyance.’ In related matter, the government has said the SIT investigations would continue. The said Cabinet leader disclosed that the “SIT would not be hold up.”
Earlier, Thursday, July 21, Nagaland state School Education said that the ‘investigation’ into the “bogus teachers” scandal in the state is not over as was the perception of the public when the department floated advertisements July 19-20 retaining or regularizing more than a thousand graduate and undergraduate teachers employed in various government schools across the state. In fact, “more” are on the way, the department’s director had said earlier.
Out of the about 1, 345 “doubtful validity” teachers, so far, 44 teachers were terminated from service – that too for failing what the government calls the “suitability test.”
Sema had said the investigations by the ‘SIT’ into the scandal are not over. During a brief interaction, Sema implied that the July 19-20 notifications were not final. More such lists are on the way, Sema had told this daily over phone on July 21. “Investigations are not closed. In fact there are so many any we could not give (the lists at once),” Sema had said. Queried whether ‘more’ such notifications are on the way, the director replied in the affirmative.
The July notifications continue to hold citizens in disbelief. After the “bogus teachers” scandal broke out in the School Education department, the government instated the SIT from the Vigilance Commission to in March 2009. Initially, the SIT unearthed as many as 1156 “bogus teachers” and about 1096 cases of appointments made under “doubtful circumstances.” The SIT submitted its report to the government in February 26, 2010. According to the SIT’s report, there were 1,151 “bogus teachers” while 1,084 were categorized as “absentees.”
In the July notifications listing those teachers who have been retained or regularized, the School Education department listed about 1, 345 graduate and undergraduate teachers. In all their cases, the advertisements said, the “SIT could not conclusively prove that the appointments were fake or illegal”.
According to the segmented list given in the advertisement, 150 undergraduate teachers of “doubtful validity” have been retained and regularized; 277 graduate teachers of “doubtful validity” retained and reappointed; 60 “doubtful graduate teachers” retained and regularized after clearing the “suitability test; 66 graduate teachers whose ‘initial appointment’ were of “doubtful validity” have been retained and regularized.
Likewise, the department retained and regularized 215 “doubtful undergraduate teachers” who successfully cleared the “suitability test.”
In all, School Education terminated from their jobs 44 “bogus graduates/undergraduate teachers” who failed to clear the ‘suitability test of bogus teachers’.
A Cabinet minister said Sunday evening that the government decided to ‘keep in abeyance’ the July notifications issued by the School Education department for further study. However, the government leader said on condition of anonymity, the envisaged review is only to examine issues associated with the posting and deployment of the teachers, vis-à-vis areas or district and not the integrity of the teachers’ appointment themselves.
Earlier during July 19-20, the department had floated full-page advertisements notifying of the government’s decision to retain or regularize more than 1, 100 graduate and undergraduate government teachers whose appointment were found questionable and of “doubtful validity” by the Vigilance Commission’s Special Investigation Team (SIT).
The leader said that the Cabinet took note of the opposition from various civil and students’ organization that had cited ‘linguistic constraints’, that is, teachers posted in areas of other tribal linguistic communities. He cited an instance that a teacher from a tribe posted into areas of another tribe would pose “linguistic problems” in imparting education. Therefore, the Cabinet leader said, the government wants the department to ‘find out’ and ‘study the pros and cons’ of the matter. For that purpose, the Cabinet decided to keep the notifications ‘in abeyance’ to facilitate the department time to examine it and “work out modalities”, he said.
At the time of filing this report, Director of School Education Khevito Sema said he has yet to receive the official order notifying about the lists to be kept in ‘abeyance.’ In related matter, the government has said the SIT investigations would continue. The said Cabinet leader disclosed that the “SIT would not be hold up.”
Earlier, Thursday, July 21, Nagaland state School Education said that the ‘investigation’ into the “bogus teachers” scandal in the state is not over as was the perception of the public when the department floated advertisements July 19-20 retaining or regularizing more than a thousand graduate and undergraduate teachers employed in various government schools across the state. In fact, “more” are on the way, the department’s director had said earlier.
Out of the about 1, 345 “doubtful validity” teachers, so far, 44 teachers were terminated from service – that too for failing what the government calls the “suitability test.”
Sema had said the investigations by the ‘SIT’ into the scandal are not over. During a brief interaction, Sema implied that the July 19-20 notifications were not final. More such lists are on the way, Sema had told this daily over phone on July 21. “Investigations are not closed. In fact there are so many any we could not give (the lists at once),” Sema had said. Queried whether ‘more’ such notifications are on the way, the director replied in the affirmative.
The July notifications continue to hold citizens in disbelief. After the “bogus teachers” scandal broke out in the School Education department, the government instated the SIT from the Vigilance Commission to in March 2009. Initially, the SIT unearthed as many as 1156 “bogus teachers” and about 1096 cases of appointments made under “doubtful circumstances.” The SIT submitted its report to the government in February 26, 2010. According to the SIT’s report, there were 1,151 “bogus teachers” while 1,084 were categorized as “absentees.”
In the July notifications listing those teachers who have been retained or regularized, the School Education department listed about 1, 345 graduate and undergraduate teachers. In all their cases, the advertisements said, the “SIT could not conclusively prove that the appointments were fake or illegal”.
According to the segmented list given in the advertisement, 150 undergraduate teachers of “doubtful validity” have been retained and regularized; 277 graduate teachers of “doubtful validity” retained and reappointed; 60 “doubtful graduate teachers” retained and regularized after clearing the “suitability test; 66 graduate teachers whose ‘initial appointment’ were of “doubtful validity” have been retained and regularized.
Likewise, the department retained and regularized 215 “doubtful undergraduate teachers” who successfully cleared the “suitability test.”
In all, School Education terminated from their jobs 44 “bogus graduates/undergraduate teachers” who failed to clear the ‘suitability test of bogus teachers’.
