Dimapur, July 20 (MExN): The crisis in Nagaland’s education department continues to burrow deeper with a new group of teachers, this time “selected teachers 2012”, asking the government to instate them into service at the earliest with stipulated salaries from their time of appointments.
The “Selected Teachers 2012 (GT/PT)” met in Kohima July 19 and has decided to seek ‘immediate attention and intervention’ of the government. They issued a letter today addressed to the chief minister of Nagaland.
The selected candidates for the teachers’ posts have demanded that the State issue appointment letters ‘immediately on or before July 24’ and that the date of appointment should be effective from the date of “undertaking submitted by the selected teachers.”
The letter said that the salaries of the selected candidates should be effective from the date of undertaking. Further, they said that all the selected candidates were recruited through ‘proper procedures of government advertisement’, cleared written examinations and interviews and have been declared qualified and selected by the department of Education. “Therefore, the inordinate delay in issuing of appointment letters to the selected candidates for teachers post is not tenable and unjustified,” the selected candidates stated.
Taking into account the delay in appointing the selected candidates, the candidates stated, “We demand that a written assurance be given by the government that appointment orders will be issued on or before 24.
Failing to do as demanded would force the candidates to take an own course of action “for which the government of Nagaland will be held solely responsible,” the letter stated.
The letter was appended by Alam Jamir, convener and Sedevilhou Victor Angami, secretary, of the “Selected Teachers 2012 (GT/PT).”
For the note of readers, Nagaland already has quite an impressive number of ‘aggrieved’ teachers under various terms such as ‘aggrieved teachers’, ‘pre-service teachers’ and ‘ad-hoc teachers,’ each asserting their claim to various grievances.
