Dimapur, June 16 (MExN): Another teachers’ organization, this time the All Nagaland Pre-service Teachers’ Association, today said to have decided to begin agitations from June demanding implementation of NCTE norms for recruitment of elementary teachers.
The association is demanding implementation of the National Council for Teacher’s Education (NCTE). With the Right to Education Act 2009 coming force, no untrained teachers are to be appointed. “And unfortunately the present number of unemployed PSTE trained at hand is 1044 and 400 undergoing trainees in 8 DIETs in our state,” the association said in a letter addressed to the Minister of School Education today.
The association has decided on agitations to start agitations from June 22 demanding implementation of the NCTE norms for recruitment of elementary teachers. The association said its sticks to ‘the earlier representation’ to the commissioner & commissioner of School Education and NCERT March 5, 2010. It was stated that the association would even go to the extent of “fast unto death” if the demand is not fulfilled.
PSTE-trained personnel are to remain as members of the ANPSTA including recently appointed government primary teachers till ‘the association lasts.’
ANPSTA agitation on June 22
Kohima, June 16 (MExN): All Nagaland Pre-Service Teachers’ Association (ANPSTA) held an executive meeting on June 1 last at the NSF conference hall and resolved that the association...
will start its first phase of agitation on June 22 to demand for implementation of NCTE norms for recruitment of elementary teachers.
In this connection participation of all the members of ANPSTA is compulsory, a release received here said and inform the participants to reach the office of Directorate School Education on June 22 by 9:00 AM.
Those members failing to participate at the “SIT in protest” shall be deal with stern action as per the ANPSTA resolution, the release added.
