DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 19 (MExN): Pitching in support, the All Nagaland Government Primary Teachers’ Association (ANGPTA) on Wednesday appealed the Nagaland Government to release the pending salaries and arrears to the SSA and the aggrieved Hindi teachers at the earliest.
“The SSA and the aggrieved Hindi teachers have been deprived of their salaries for the past six months causing them mental agony, financial constraints and adversity so much so that they are neck deep in debt. The said teachers have been discharging their duties diligently and with dedication even in this situation but as we all know, it is humanly impossible to work and perform in an empty stomach. Moreover, our salary is the only source and means of sustenance for the whole family irrespective of numbers of members in the family,” ANGPTA in an appeal addressed to the Additional Director (HoD), School Education stated.
The Association also lamented that all the woes and pleas of the aggrieved teachers have often been left unattended or ignored for too long - far beyond the point of toleration, forcing them to resort to agitation time-and-again. It maintained that this desperate measure by these teachers in the form of agitations puts the whole department, which is considered as the department of “the noblest profession”, in a very bad light before the whole world. Above all, the Association pointed out, “The department should also realize that this kind of failure on its part to bring about a permanent solution of paying timely salary to all the teachers appointed under different centrally sponsored schemes after so many years of facing the same issue is adversely affecting in the delivery of quality education in the state.”
It said this non-release of salary is the reason for the de-motivating factor to work without pay for months and months altogether. The Association has therefore appealed the Department of School Education to release their pending salaries and arrears at the earliest to avoid further escalation of the already adversely affected school situations.
