• SSA teachers without pay for 4 months
• 1379 CSS Hindi teachers without pay for 9 months
DIMAPUR, MARCH 3 (MExN): The Wokha and Peren units of the All Nagaland Hindi Teachers Union (ANHTU) today extended support to the demand for release of 9 months pending salaries for 1379 CSS Hindi teachers at the earliest.
A press note from the Wokha unit of the ANHTU urged the Department of School Education to act on this matter and informed that “school children’s admission were still pending due to delay of salaries.”
The Peren Unit, in a separate press note, demanded that all pending salaries with arrears be released at the earliest. “Having concern for student’s future, we have performed our duty for nine months without pay,” it stated.
Meanwhile, the Nagaland SSA Teacher’s Association (NSSATA) Wokha unit today informed that it would boycott classes if the concerned authority fails to release the four month salary (November, 2016 to February, 2017) for SSA teachers along with pending arrears by March 10.
It appealed to the Nagaland Minister for School Education; Commissioner and Secretary for School Education and the Additional Director (HOD) for School Education to uphold the written assurance given by the concerned authority on November 2, 2016.
A press note from the unit stated that SSA teachers were made to suffer “untold hardship since the time of issuing appointment order where teachers had to face court case to get appointment order even after duly recruited through open state competitive exam. Teachers have been experiencing unpleasant and embarrassing dry Christmas and New Year for four consecutive years now due to irregular payment of salary.”
It reminded that the SSA is a centrally sponsored flagship programme in a mission mode to achieve the goal of education for all children from 6 Years to 14 Years of age throughout the country and is being funded by the union Ministry of Human Resource Development. Reiterating that state government only needs to contribute 10% share in order to carry out the SSA mission, it felt that the SSA teachers should get regular salary.
“However, the concerned state government fails to smoothly deliver even the salary component meant for teacher’s monthly hard earned wages there by threatening the livelihood of SSA teachers,” it lamented.
