Did you know? The DAN government is doing its best to promote and develop education in the state. It’s one of their priority tasks as a responsible government .The government has done a commendable job by constructing more school buildings in towns and even in the remotest areas. To activate these schools, the government has also recruited many new teachers. With availability of many government schools, children can have access to school education for free. The positive result is that, the enrolments in the government schools are increasing every year. This means that the quality of education in government schools has improved. The government deserves praise and support. The credit also goes to the sincere and qualified teachers for their dedication and service. For more accomplishment, the government has to give more sincere efforts and take constructive decisions.
The government as it moves ahead with achievements should see where it is failing. As they cannot succeed without solving the problems and challenges on their way. For instance, the most crucial issue recently is the inability of the government to pay the salaries of all its teachers. The hardworking SSA teachers are not getting their salaries regularly. They get their salaries after three to four months. This is causing a lot of problems and hardships to the teachers. In fact, the more teachers’ suffers, the more the chances of student’s failure. If this system continues it will not only cause troubles to teachers, but also lead to failures in the education system very soon. The salary is the only income for a teacher to survive and run a family and home. Besides, how can a teacher be regular and sincere at school if they don’t get their salaries? And if a teacher is irregular at school, how can the students receive quality education. The teachers are doing their best at school; they are also contributing to the government’s endeavor of imparting quality education. It’s so very unfair not to get paid in spite of all the hard work and dedicated service. Moreover, the state government is also receiving 90% of the funds from the central government to pay salaries to the SSA teachers. The state government’s burden is to pay only 10%.Despite this, something is wrong and the government is not in a position to pay the salaries. As it’s a new year, the teachers and students are looking forward for the start of new academic session. It’s an appeal and expectation that the government will pay the teachers’ salaries on time.
As the government continues this unending task of education, the contribution and service of the teachers is indispensable. The government cannot achieve success without the commitment and active participation of the teachers. The government needs the teachers and the teachers need the government. The students depend on their teachers, and the teachers and students again directly or indirectly depend on the government. If the government fails, or delays to perform its duty, it results to damaging impacts on the teachers and students. The right decision of the government can bring the right changes to the teachers, students and the education system of Nagaland.
Thungchamo Lotha
Primary Teacher Dimapur
