Dimapur, July 29 (MExN): Adhoc teachers in Nagaland are unhappy with what they called the Education department’s “slow action” of regularising qualified teachers. The adhoc teachers who are awaiting their regularisation orders from the Education department are convinced that, among other reasons, the delay is “because they are not being bribed.”
If the department takes five years, the All Nagaland Adhoc Graduate Teachers’ Association today said, to issue regularisation orders even for the approved teachers, the problems in the department cannot be expected to be solved. In a note today, the association stated that the state Cabinet had taken a decision on January 16, 2004, regulating adhoc appointments. The decision directed adhoc employees who have five to ten years of service, to take suitability tests conducted by the AIT.
According to the Cabinet’s decision, a good number of adhoc graduate teachers with more than five years (as on January 16, 2004) of service took the suitability test for service regularization in 2005. “The suitability tests committee had recommended the case of 342 teachers for regularizations and as per the committee recommendation, state cabinet nodded approval for regularization of 342 teachers in early part of 2009,” the association stated.
The teachers have lamented that four years have already passed but the regularisation orders are yet to be issued. After the Cabinet’s approval, files normally go to the P&AR and Finance departments for service matter and finance. The teachers remarked: “whether to P&AR or Finance, files should not take much time as its movement is within the same secretariat complex. Besides, it is being vigorously pursued by the concerned teachers.”
The teachers remarked further that the delay in issuing the orders may be due to the lack of interest by the government or due to the inefficiency of the authority in concern “or because they are not being bribed.”
