Dimapur, April 21 (MExN): The ongoing stir by the Nagaland RMSA Teachers Association (NRMSATA) gained additional support on Friday with more School Management & Development Committees (SMDC), schools and others urging the concerned authority to look into the matter.
The NRMSATA teachers are boycotting classes over non-payment of salaries for the past five months.
Pointing out that classes have been “badly affected” because of the agitation by RMSA teachers, the School Management Committees and schools in separate statements appealed the education department to look into the matter and release the pending salaries without any further delay. The SMCs and schools include: SMC, Govt. Primary School Sarbura, Kashiram; Govt High School (GHS) Sovima; SMDC GHS Maova, Medziphema; and SMC GHS Nito, Niuland.
Meanwhile, the NRMSATA President met the School Education Minister on Friday during which the latter appealed for the agitation to be called off. However, with no assurance forthcoming from the Minister, the NRMSATA President informed that the agitation will continue till its demands are met.
YASU extends support
The Yongnyah Area Students’ Union, Longleng has requested the Education Department (RMSA) and the State Government to look into the matter of RMSA-2016 teachers at the earliest “as the teachers are demanding for what is rightfully theirs”.
“Despite the NRMSATA-2016 submission of separate representation to the Government for the timely release of all the pending salaries, the Government turned a deaf ear to the representation,” a statement from YASU stated while expressing solidarity to the NRMSATA over their “genuine” demands.
“In spite of all the hardships the teachers face, they are sincerely performing their duties and it is a pathetic scene to see that they have to every time undergo through representations, ultimatums, agitations, etc to receive their hard toiled salaries,” the union stated.
Arguing that the indifferent attitude of the Government towards the teachers is placing the lives and careers of thousands of innocent students at great risks, the YASU urged the department to consider the matter with utmost importance and at the earliest for the welfare of all.
