Morung Express News
Dimapur | February 9
Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Friday nullified the controversial statement made by the Advisor to School Education & SCERT, Dr Kehkrielhoulie Yhome that there will be no recruitment of primary teachers from the Ao and Sumi tribes for the next ten years. Dr Yhome had reasoned his assertion based on the findings of excess number of primary teachers from the two tribes.
Disagreeing with Dr Yhome’s statement, Rio told media persons on the sidelines of a programme at Chümoukedima on Friday that recruitment of primary teachers will go as per the rules and not by the rationale of the School Education Advisor.
The Chief Minister spelled out that Dr Yhome may have made the statement going by his findings that certain tribes have more or excess teachers in the primary teacher category.
“That is his thinking…but it will not go that way. It will go according to the rules of recruitment…,” Rio stated.
No logic in recruiting primary teachers
When it’s already in excess: Dr Yhome
Meanwhile, Advisor to School Education Dr Kehkrielhoulie Yhome, who was also present at the same venue, was nonchalant over the outrage caused by his statement. He said “there was no clarification” to be made while asserting that he was just stating the plain figures and that there was no ‘logic of recruiting more primary teachers for these two particular tribes when there was already in excess.” He emphasized that for primary teachers; only native teachers had to be recruited while for others, there is open competition.
“I do not see any point with all this frenzy. It is wild… it exposes our characters, I cannot understand why everything is being blown out of proportion,” Dr Yhome maintained.
The Advisor also maintained that he had no interest in waging war against some particular tribe, adding, “I am just stating facts and figures. Let’s go by that.”
