Kohima, September 28 (MTNews): Demanding immediate service regularization, hundreds of Ad hoc Nagaland government teachers on Wednesday continued with their sit-in protests in Kohima for the third day despite the statement issued by Principal Director of the Directorate of School Education, Thavaseelan K on Tuesday who stated that the members of ANATG-2015 batch are not illegal appointees but they were appointed “irregularly without following proper norms” against sanctioned posts at different times.
The Principal Director has also said that it is not that the department does not want to help them to get their service regularized but that the department and the government are ‘constrained’ because of the standing order of the Supreme Court and High Court not to regularize any ad hoc appointees.
The All Nagaland Ad hoc Teachers Group (ANATG)-2015 Batch with 1,166 members appointed to different government schools in the state from 1994 to 2012 have been staging demonstration holding placards and banners outside the State Civil Secretariat since Monday.
Meanwhile, the Rising People’s Party (RPP) extended their full supports to the demand of the All-Nagaland Adhoc Teachers’ Group (ANATG) for regularization while asking the NDPP-BJP Coalition to “stop victimizing” the 1,166 teachers.
The party through a press release said that they are not surprised that the “state’s dirtiest department” is giving “all sorts of excuses.”
“The Principal Director, DoSE, should not shoot his mouth nor mislead the Cabinet without knowing the facts,” the party stated.
According to the party, in the ACAUT/PSAN litigation filed before the High Court, case no. 145 (K) 2017, Grade-III Adhoc teachers were “not impleaded in the case.”
“The litigation only pertained to those posts falling under the purview of NPSC which were filled up through backdoor, that are without examination being conducted,” the party clarified.
The party added that the teachers are appointed under a separate recruitment policy (with requisite qualification) which is not under the purview of NPSC examination, and therefore, it was “unfair and hurtful” to label all the agitating teachers as backdoor appointees.
The party pointed out that the “contradictory stand of the NDPP-BJP Coalition” on matters of regularization only shows “lack of good counsel and indecisiveness of the Cabinet.”
“Just recently in September, 2,290 RMSA and SSA teachers of 2010 and 2013 batches were absorbed/regularized which means that their salary is now wholly paid by the state government. So should the DoSE have 2 separate regularization policies? Shouldn’t the Advisor for School Education publicly address the contradictions?” the party asked.
The party in conclusion asked the NDPP-BJP Coalition to “stop victimizing the 1,166 teachers” and encouraged the agitating teachers to stand their ground till the state government assures that justice will be served.