Our Correspondent
Kohima | September 26
School education advisor KT Sukhalu today assured the Nagaland Adhoc Teachers Group (ANATG)-2015 Batch that the department will present their case in the cabinet sitting on September 28. After gathering suggestions from ANSTA and advocate Imti Longjem for granting scale pay to ANATG 2015 while waiting for legal procedure for regularization of the service, Sukhalu said he would present the case to the cabinet till such time the court case is disposed off.
“We will present your case to the cabinet,” Sukhalu told ANATG 2015 in the presence of legal luminaries and representatives from ANSTA and Naga Students’ Federation at a meeting convened by School Education Department here at Nagaland’s Secretariat Conference Hall. “We are concerned about your case,” said Sukhalu adding that “if at all we are sleeping over your grievances you have the right to raise your voice...We are keen to regularize your service. We are keen to clear the system in the department,” he said, maintaining that “We will try our best and we have been trying our best to take up your case.”
Meanwhile, the ANATG 2015 informed that the Government has stated to them that their “hands are tied to regularize Adhoc/ Contractual/ Casual appointments.”
However the Government has tabled the regularization order of the 82 Casual Employees which was made on September 11 in the Home Department, Secretariat Administration Branch ‘A’ Vide Order NO: SAB-4/ 4/97 (Pt-III), it was informed.
“Since the government can regularize employees in other department, the ANATG- 2015 Batch demands that our 1166 members be regularized at the earliest and stop the chain of excuses,” stated the ANATG 2015 in a ‘meeting resolution’ released today to the press by its President, Rüguotsolie, General Secretary, Pekato Zhimomi, Convener, Thungchanbemo E and Spokesperson, Bendangtemsu Ozukum.
It also informed that the Batch has decided to wait for the September 28 cabinet sitting after which it will decide its further course of action. If it is not in ANATG 2015’s favour, then it will “not hesitate” to act upon the same “whatsoever may be the consequences for the injustices meted out to us,” the team resolved.
The ANATG 2015 appealed to all “right thinking citizens and civil organizations” to stand by them.
