Dimapur, May 5 (MExN): With regard to Education Minister CM Chang’s response to NPCC’s press statement, the NPCC has stated that instead of “needlessly” explaining the structure of SSA and its funding pattern, the minister could have done a better service by highlighting his sincerity and seriousness to resolve the ongoing agitation by the NSSATA whose members have been left without salary for the past five months.
The NPCC Media Cell stated that the minister has openly derided the Nagaland SSA Teachers Association’s (NSSATA) agitation by maintaining that the Department of School Education and the state government has committed no lapses on salary payment when thousands of SSA teachers are on agitation for nonpayment of salaries. “The minister is also reminded that as Vice President of Nagaland Education Mission Society (NEMS) by virtue of being the Minister for School Education, he is fully responsible for its lapses and mismanagement as in the case with nonpayment of salaries for the past five months.”
If he feels that the NPCC is issuing baseless statements, the NPCC requested CM Chang to go through "the details furnished by the NSSATA which appeared alongside his press statement on a frontpage of a prominent local daily on May 4, 2014.” The NSSATA’s statement, the NPCC asserted, “literally debunks the minister’s statement against NPCC and further exposes the callousness and lackadaisical attitude of the state government towards thousands of SSA teachers and for which the NPCC need not elaborate further but leave it to the public to best judge it.”
