DIMAPUR, AUGUST 8 (MExN): The Special Education Teachers Association Nagaland (SETAN) today submitted a representation to the Mission Director, Nagaland Education Mission Society, RMSA urging for recall/revocation of the order dated June 24, 2016 terminating the services of the Special Education Teachers (SET) with retrospective effect. The SETAN representation said that “there are no trained teachers available in Nagaland, and because of it, we have been appointed with the knowledge of the MHRD on the condition that we would undergo training subsequent to our appointment.”
It stated that upon their appointment, the teachers have attended the training on Inclusive Education for Teachers under IEDSS conducted by the Department and have now “gained good measure of experience in teaching the Special Students.”
“Further, as per the requirement of our services, we are in the process of undergoing the requisite training. Under such circumstances, it is not only illegal but also malafide on the part of the State to decide to do away with our services with a view to bring in new untrained teachers,” the SETAN said.
“Such action is also against the interest of the Special Students, whose right to education is being arbitrarily deprived by the State action of terminating the SETs en masse,” it added.
It further informed that the appointments were “made on the condition that it shall be co-terminus with the IEDSS programme, so long as the programme continues, our services cannot be validly terminated.” As such, the SETAN said that “in any view of the matter, the order terminating our services cannot be sustained,” and urged that the order be recalled and cancelled.
