DIMAPUR, MARCH 22 (MExN): The Sumi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu (SKK) has written to the Nagaland State Education Minister to increase efforts in tackling the menace of proxy teachers in government schools of the state.
The SKK said that “lenient attitude” towards offenders is one of the major contributory factors that hinder a solution to this problem. “As long as the system is left in the web of complication unheeded, futures of the affected students shall continue to keep on miserably compromising,” the SKK cautioned.
It proposed a strategy framed in the form of ‘MISSION- doing right,’ which the SKK said would “encompass the above subject as the epicenter to flush out proxy teacher system and allied offences in all the Sumi inhabited area.” It however called for the Department to effectively reciprocate the SKK’s initiative with stringent disciplinary action without fair or favor.
It asked that the government introduce and implement biometric teacher attendance. The SKK further said GHSS/GHS/GMS/GPS teachers keeping proxy in their respective place of posting should be immediately suspended for one academic year without granting sustenance allowance while School Management Committee concerned be immediately dissolved and re-constituted.
It urged immediate appointment of qualified and dedicated substitute teachers in place of the suspended teacher under the supervision of the Deputy Commissioner concerned.
The suspended teachers, it added must be reinstated “only after signing an agreement to be loyal & faithful to the profession and expression of willingness to be terminated without notice in the event of repeating the offence.” Habitual absentee teachers, it demanded must be awarded immediate withhold of one annual increment with cumulative effect.
The SKK further asked that the government ensure timely payment of all the government teachers irrespective of the nature of appointment. It called for immediate initiatives for the grant of special allowance to the teachers posted to exceptionally difficult & remote areas.
The SKK then urged that rampant transfer/posting of teachers in the mid-academic session be brought under control; and genuine grievances of the teaching community if identified in the process of pursuing the said mission be heeded with all seriousness and prompt necessary action to that effect be taken.
