Dimapur, June 23 (MExN): The state government is asked to appoint teachers from the Yimchungru community for Kuthur GPS, Tuensang “to ease the language problem” due to the “students’ suffocation” from teachers being transferred out of the school.
GPS of Kuthur-C, in Tuensang, is functioning with ‘shortage of teachers disproportional to the students’ ratio,’ the Yimchungru Akheru Arihako (YAA) explains while expressing resentment at the transfer of “GPS Kuthur” to Dimapur without replacing the vacant post.
According to the YAA executive, one primary teacher T Marry was transferred with post to GPS Tsithongse village, Dimapur against existing post of IM Asangla who retired on April 30, 2006. No replacement has been made so far. Later again, one Veronica Yeptho was appointed for the Kuthur GPS but later transferred to Dimapur with post. However, the entire issue is “mysterious” according to the YAA because she has bee “kept in darkness as neither appointment order nor transfer order has been intimated to DIS or GPS, Khutur C.”
According to the YAA, Nagaland is a tribal state comprised of multiple languages and “as such mother tongue is taught in all primary schools situated especially at villages.” In this context, the YAA explained that unscrupulous appointment of teachers from outside the respective tribe “becomes a language problem in the school.” For these reason most of the teachers hardy attend or are compelled to leave the school with the students bearing all the suffering.
In this regard, the YAA has set a demand to the state government: Those transferred with post from GPS Kuthur-C should be immediately reinstated and appointment should be made from the Yimchungru community “to ease the students’ grievances.” In the event of “breakdown of law and order” in the affected village, the union will not be held responsible, it added.
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