Dimapur, May 21 (MExN): The Western Sumi Students' Union (WSSU) today listed a number of queries for the chief minister in regard to the ongoing verifications in the School Education department. The union said in an “open letter” to the CM urged for his immediate intervention “into this case because most of the students depending on these teachers started facing acute financial problems in school, hostel fees”.
In the letter, the union said the “investigation process is yet to be tabled” but the salary for teachers was withheld for three consecutive months till the All Nagaland School Teachers Association threatened to launch statewide agitations. Here, the WSSU claimed that the teachers under the establishment of DIS of Niuland has “been singled out and their salaries withheld by the School Directorate.” The DIS of Niuland was established “by your Government” in 2006, bifurcated out of DIS Dimapur, the union said. The WSSU raised a number of queries in this regard. The union questioned how it can be possible for the government to sanction money for teachers’ salary “without the proper authentications of genuine teachers?”
“Can any office with DDO power submits any amount to the treasury and draw amount? What are the criteria of DDO? What does the payrole list says of each DIS and DEO or equivalent?” the union queried. The union wondered if the DIS of Niuland is “the last bastion bogus teachers” and “why isolating it” now.
The union also demanded clarification why many new appointment processes of promotion and regularization are still on “in the midst of investigation” and whether replacing of teachers in place of bogus (appointees) necessitated the Director to appoint his close aides.”
“Will it not be fair to investigate the whole department? Why only the teachers? The present Director and his subordinates have been vested with excess authority and chances of covering up their own deeds while they are left out,” the union said.
The WSSU has sought the chief minister’s intervention at the earliest.
