DIMAPUR, AUGUST 26 (MExN): The All Nagaland Aggrieved Hindi Teachers Association (ANAHTA) today highlighted the “untold hardships” being faced by the ANAHTA members due to non-payment of salaries for the past seven months.
In this regard, a state level meeting of the ANAHTA was held at APO Conference Hall, Kohima on August 11, where the grievances and hardships of the Association were thoroughly discussed. After the meeting, the association petitioned the Directorate of School Education to look into the issue on August, 24.
During the meeting, the association unanimously resolved to demand the School Education Department to pursue the release of pending salary with immediate effect. The members also resolved to pursue the Department to submit the audit report on time to the Central Government, “so long as we are paid under CSS.”
The meeting asserted that “as per our appointment order, we are state employees regularly appointed and not appointed under any scheme; hence we should be accommodated under the State Plan henceforth.”
It was also resolved to ask the School Education Department to afford opportunity to teachers to pursue training through correspondence course. It maybe noted that the Department has already made the teachers to sign an undertaking on July 26, where the teachers on training would not be substituted at the expense of department/authority during the training period, instead the teacher on training would have to pay his/her substitute/proxy from his/her own salary to the tune of Rs 6700/- per month. “It may also be noted that the state has only one Hindi teachers training institute that cannot accommodate all the teachers within limited time,” the ANAHTA said.
The ANAHTA also decided to pursue as to why the New Pension Scheme (NPS) deducted/contributed amount is not properly accredited to the accounts of members.
It further resolved that the association would “stand together, in case any member(s) is/are individually targeted by any authority while working for the cause of ANATHA.”
