MOKOKCHUNG, OCTOBER 26 (MExN): The All Nagaland Government Primary Teachers Association (ANGPTA), Mokokchung District has written a letter to the Director for School Education drawing attention to the ongoing agitation in the form of boycotting of classes by the Nagaland SSA Teachers Association and the All Nagaland Aggrieved Hindi Teachers Association.
The ANGPTA, Mokokchung pointed out that the agitation has been going on for nearly two weeks now due to non-payment of salaries for the past five to seven months.
“We are all aware of the fact that salary is the only source of income particularly for the teachers. However, the monthly salary due for the teachers is not paid for months and is made to work empty stomach. This has thus caused untold hardships and is now virtually impossible to carry out their duties diligently. The teachers are working under different conditions, some of them even posted in the remotest region making it difficult even to manage their daily needs,” it said.
The ANGPTA, Mokokchung Unit further informed that some of the schools are badly affected due to the ongoing agitation. This is a crucial time in the academic calendar when the student community has reached a point to give their best and appear their final examinations, it said. It informed that while teachers and students were all trying to cover the syllabus and prepare for the term end examinations, “everything has come to a halt.” “The careers of the students are thus hampered for which the teachers will not be responsible,” it added.
The ANGPTA, Mokokchung urged the department to look into the ongoing crisis with highest priority and solve the matter at the earliest so that normal duty of the teachers resumes for the greater interest of the student community in particular.
“The non-payment of salary on time to teachers has greatly disappointed and de-motivated the teachers to work diligently, which has in turn in a great way affected the quality of education especially in the Government Schools,” it lamented.
The unit appealed to the department concerned to bring a permanent solution to this problem so that the lives of innocent students are not put at risk.
