Appeals to resolve issues at Government High School Zuketsa
Pfutsero, March 12 (MExN): The Zuketsa Area Public Organisation (ZAPO) today expressed displeasure over what it called “step-motherly treatment” given to the public and particularly students’ community of Zuketsa area by the Government of Nagaland concerning issues at Government High School Zuketsa.
A press release from ZAPO President, Ngupelo Therie and General Secretary, Rite Khutso informed that the school has been locked up since March 8, 2017 due to government’s failure to advertise the post of Chowkidar at the school. “Now the school is helpless and hundreds of innocent students’ career is at stake because of the lackadaisical attitude of the government,” it lamented.
The issue has been ongoing and the landowners first locked up the school in September 2014.
According to ZAPO, the Gauhati High Court in its order W.P(C) 193(K) of 2014 to Department of School Education (DoSE), Government of Nagaland, directed the department to advertise the post of Chowkidar at Government High School Zuketsa within 3 months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of the Order.
“But it’s flabbergasting to know that it took the concerned department almost 14 months to write a simple correspondence/ letter to Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Pfutsero instructing him to constitute a Sub-Divisional Selection Board in terms of Govt. approval order No. DSE/HC-09/2014/529 dated 21/6/2016 for recruitment to 1 (one) post of Chowkidar at GHS Zuketsa inspite of receiving the Court Order on the 29/06/2015,” the release stated.
Meanwhile, the organisation alleged that the ADC, Pfutsero even after receiving the official correspondence from the DoSE on August 5, 2016 instructing him to advertise the post vacant and to conduct the interview, “failed to do so due to reasons best known to him.”
The school administration and NGOs in the area, it said, also conveyed the news of the school to the department and administration “but they showed no sign of interest as no officials from the department nor administration visited the school.”
In this light, the organisation questioned the sincerity of the government towards the area people stating this is not the first instance.
It mentioned that the incumbent HoD of the DoSE even visited the school in 2016 and had an interaction with the school administration, but issues faced by the school have not been resolved yet. ZAPO pointed out there is no Science teacher in the school since September 2016, no language teacher appointed since its inception in 1993, and the school has been running without a Headmaster since May 2016.
Therefore, the organisation on behalf of the public of the area appealed to the authority concerned to solve the issue regarding appointment of Chowkidar at the earliest so the children can go back to school. It also urged the DoSE to appoint Headmaster, Science teacher and language teacher at the earliest.
