DIMAPUR, APRIL 6 (MExN): The Nagaland RMSA Teachers’ Association (NRMSATA) today served a 7 day ultimatum to the Education Department (RMSA) for release of 5 months worth of pending salaries.
A press note from the NRMSATA stated that despite enough reminders of their grievances at all given opportunities and platform, there has been no positive response and outcome towards the fate of RMSA teachers even after a long patient wait. The association said that “it was unacceptable when we are often being dragged into the pool of pitiable conditions and to live without salary for over 5 months.”
“We did all that was humanly to us and therefore, we had good faith that the department must have heard our grievances being addressed, but only to realize of beating the dust at the end of the day when we are bogged down on this same old issue,” it added.
It meanwhile reminded that during the ULB imbroglio, “when the employees of the state were delayed a month of their salary, the State Government doused the fire with rapidity, producing assuring statements and genuinely expressing their regrets with wholesomeness by introducing immediate corrective measures.”
On the excuse of non release of funds from the central ministry, it questioned if the central ministry is so disorganized in their functioning that it persistently leaves their work pending, inconveniencing the innumerous departments that falls under them. Failing to comply with the ultimatum, it further cautioned, will invite the association to take its own course of action.
