Issues 7-day ultimatum to Nagaland Government
Dimapur, October 29 (MExN): In a first among the apex organisations, the Ao Students’ Conference (AKM) today served an ultimatum to the Government of Nagaland to immediately release “all pending salaries to the aggrieved teachers within 7 days” and “henceforth pay their monthly salaries regularly.”
The AKM is constrained to issue this ultimatum in the interest of safeguarding the career and welfare of the student community, stated the apex Ao students’ body in its ultimatum letter to the Chief Minister of Nagaland.
The contents of the letter were released to media here by its President L Jemti Longchar and General Secretary Bendangkumba Aier.
Stating that it is “astounded” at the fact that the State government has not been paying monthly salaries to a number of Hindi and SSA teachers for six to nine months at a stretch, the AKM further accused that State Government of being “absolutely unfair” to the aggrieved teachers.
The boycott by aggrieved teachers under the aegis of the All Nagaland Hindi Teachers Association (ANHTA) and the Nagaland SSA Teachers Association 2010 & 2013 (NSSATA) is due to government’s failure to meet their demands is thus legitimate, it said extending its endorsement.
However, the career of thousands of innocent students at peril, more so as the current academic session is coming to an end due to government negligence and apathy, the AKM memo further implied.
In this regard, AKM asserted that it would not remain a mute spectator to “specter of mis-governance” on the part of the government of the day and appealed for fulfilling the demands of the aggrieved teachers “without any further delay so that they can perform their duties efficiently.”
All pending salaries to the aggrieved teachers must be released within 7 days and henceforth pay their monthly salaries regularly, it added.
Maintaining that the career of innocent students, the future of the land, cannot be put at jeopardy because of the government’s ineptness, AKM further cautioned that it would be “compelled to take its own course of action” in the event of government failure to comply with the ultimatum within the stipulated dateline.
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