At a time when the state government and the people rejoices over the exulted victory of the SSA Scheme in Nagaland, needless, the concern authority need to seriously review its failure in disbursing the teacher’s salary in time.
The fourth month of extended patience is on the verge of completion that the 2500 plus SSA teachers have been victimized, unreasonably stripped and forcefully made beggars for want of due salary’s and arrears. Continuing with the justification process, we are compelled to make clear our stand that the SSA Scheme is a joint response of the Central, State and Local governments to the demand for Universal Elementary Education to all children. It is but, when the very survival of the teachers are threatened, the thought of promoting social justice through basic education becomes a secondary matter, for which, we earnestly appeal the government to review and turn the matter vice-versa.
The crucial meeting of ANSTA along with SSA Teachers, Hindi Teachers and Special Education Teachers on January 28, 2014 at CANSSEA building Kohima, serves an important landmark as we wait, 30 days hence, a positive outcome of the memorandum which was submitted to the government. We have suffered long and good enough in every provision of our job; a good number of us have experienced the storms and tides of delayed appointments for a year, we have experienced the coldest Christmas season and our children’s recent admission is nothing short of Divine Providence. For the moment, our pending salary and job stability holds more important than the coming Lok Sabha elections. Seeking a ‘credible road map’, the DSSATA earnestly appeal the state government and the concerned authority to kindly release our pending salaries and arrears and also make necessary arrangements in the near future so that teachers are not affected while rendering their service of imparting education to the students.
Dimapur SSA Teachers’ Association (DSSATA)
