NSSATA Peren demands release of salary & arrears

DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 26 (MExN): The Nagaland SSA Teacher’s Association (NSSATA), Peren Unit has reminded the Nagaland State Government and the concerned authority of the written assurances given on November 2, 2016 to take necessary steps and measures for timely release of SSA teacher’s salary. A press note from the unit stated that payment of regular salary became ineffective from the very month of signing in the agreement.” It lamented that the agreement “proved to be a failure as the entire SSA teachers were yet to get their salaries and arrears since November 2016 in spite of discharging their duties diligently.” Our salary is the only source and means of sustenance for children education and livelihood, it said, while adding that “after so many years of facing the same issue the government should also realize that this kind of failures on its part to bring about permanent solution to this particular problem of timely payment of salary every month has adversely affecting in the delivery of quality education in the state.” The NSSATA Peren appealed to the new government to release the pending salaries and arrears at the earliest.