DIMAPUR, MARCH 29 (MExN): The Nagaland State Department of School Education has come under more pressure with the Nagaland Government Primary Teachers’ Association (NGPTA) accusing the department of “depriving primary students.”
A press note from the NGPTA President, Heikieleung Zeliang said that the Nagaland State Government needs to “roll up its sleeves, tighten their belt and put to practice what they have been preaching...”
It stated that the School Education Department has been in the lime light “endlessly for more of negative criticism than positivity.” Most of the problems in the department, the NGPTA claimed “are its own creation.” “And what irony that even before getting to solutions, problems will crop up again. No point in only harping on transparency, honesty, sincerity, justice, development etc,” it stated.
The NGPTA lamented that Government teachers “are always at the receiving end for all the wrong reasons.” It claimed that Government schools teachers “are the most qualified,” and reasoned that they are “selected and appointed only after due interviews, except for bogus, proxy teachers and the like.”
It also expressed concern at Government Schools not receiving their text books on time. The NGPTA informed that for this year, primary schools are yet to receive the books. “And the first quarterly may well be over by the time the text books reach the schools. Now, the question here is, can ‘assurances’ be taught to our Primary School Children?,” it questioned.
It then expressed frustration that government school teachers are “expected to perform miracles,” while the schools at the primary level are being “deprived one way or the other.”
Asking for more than mere assurances, the NGPTA stated: “Let us not ask our children to eat their food, when their plates are empty.”
