The All Nagaland Ad hoc Teachers’ Group (ANATG), batch 2015, on Tuesday suspended its sit-in protest for a day following a three-hour meeting with the government, but signalled that its agitation is far from over as key demands remain unresolved.
The meeting, held at the Directorate of School Education, was convened by Advisor for School Education and SCERT, Kekhrielhoulie Yhome, and attended by officials from the Directorate, the Secretariat, Samagra Shiksha, and representatives of the All Nagaland School Teachers’ Association (ANSTA).
Despite what sources described as “long deliberations,” ANATG members said the government failed to provide concrete assurances on their two principal demands – a specific timeframe for service regularisation and segregation of files relating to its 1,166 members.
Speaking after the meeting, a member of the group termed the discussions “inconclusive,” stating that “no satisfactory offers” were tabled by the government.
The teachers, who have been staging a sit-in protest in Kohima, decided to temporarily suspend Tuesday’s demonstration to brief their general membership. A general meeting has been called on February 18 at Nagaland Solidarity Park to deliberate on the outcome of the talks and decide the next course of action.
The ANATG has maintained that its demands remain unchanged.