DIMAPUR, JUNE 30 (MExN): The Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) and Public Service Aspirants of Nagaland (PSAN) has issued a rejoinder to the clarification sought by the All Nagaland Teachers Association (ANSTA) with regard to the writ petition filed against backdoor/illegal appointment and if it effected the regularization of the 1166 adhoc teachers.
The clarification sought by ANSTA comes in the backdrop of the State Government maintaining that it is unable to regularize the service of the adhoc teachers due to a writ petition filed by the ACAUT & PSAN against alleged backdoor/illegal appointment of 709 posts in 35 state departments.
The adhoc teachers under the banner of All Nagaland Adhoc Teachers Group (ANATG) 2015 Batch are on a hunger strike demanding the regularization of their services in Kohima.
Media cell, ACAUT and PSAN in a clarification note on Saturday informed that the Writ Petition (WC) (C) No. 145 (k)/17 is subjudice before the Court and if need be, ANSTA can seek clarification from the Court and not from ACAUT & PSAN.
It explained that ACAUT & PSAN had filed the writ petition against illegal and rampant backdoor appointments to 706 posts which fall under the purview of NPSC and hence the adhoc teachers were not in any way impleaded in the case by ACAUT & PSAN.
It also maintained that the State Government is the employer of adhoc teachers, and not ACAUT & PSAN and therefore appropriate to seek redressal from the government instead of raising questions against ACAUT & PSAN for filing the writ petition which needs no approval from any third party.
Further pointing out that recruitment of teachers is done by the Department of School Education with their own conditions of service, ACAUT & PSAN said it is up to the department/aggrieved party to seek alternative legal remedy, if so desired, as per law instead of a third party.
ACAUT & PSAN meanwhile alleged that certain individuals and officials are trying to make them a scapegoat in the current imbroglio for their own vested interests while “playing hide and seek with their employees despite there being remedial measures to tackle the issue, inside and outside the court.”
The adhoc teachers under the banner of Nagaland Adhoc Teachers Group (ANATG) 2015 Batch have been staging sit-in protest at DoSE, Kohima since June 18 demanding regularization of their service.
With the State Government unrelenting, the adhoc teachers have been on a hunger strike since Friday. In response, Advisor to School Education, K Tokugha Sukhalu in a DIPR report blamed the inability of the State Government to regularize the adhoc teachers on the writ petition filed by ACAUT & PSAN.
He also warned that the government would not hesitate to take action against those who “agitate on non issues.”
