RMSA qualified candidates call for indefinite agitation

Our Correspondent
KOHIMA, OCTOBER 12

Close on the heels of the agitation staged by teachers employed under the central flagship program
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) in Nagaland for not being paid their salaries for over six months, a group formed by the qualified candidates of an exam for graduate teacher posts under the same program has now threatened to go on an indefinite stir citing their dismay at the concerned department for several reasons.
More than two thousand young and eager Naga graduates who cleared the Nagaland RMSA written exam 2014 for the post of graduate teacher and sports instructor are reportedly left in apprehension about their future as the government has failed to complete the process of recruitment as per its advertisement No. RMSA/EXAM/2013-14, dated December 14, 2013. As a result, the disappointed qualified candidates, who have converged to form a central forum, informed today that they would launch an indefinite agitation from October 20 onwards at the RMSA office premises Kohima from 9 am. The qualified candidates of RMSA written exam 2014 had earlier in July this year launched a protest rally at the state Secretariat for non-conduct of viva voce interview for the categories of graduate teacher and sports instructor under the RMSA even after a lapse of an extensive period. The School Education minister had intervened then and the viva-voce interview for the post of graduate teachers was subsequently conducted in the month of August. However, it was learnt that oral interview for the post of sports instructor remains yet to be conducted and the final result for graduate teacher posts is also yet to be declared.
The forum convener, Kakito Z Sumi said the forum has written to the Mission Director RMSA Nagaland in the form of representations and later issued an ultimatum on September 30 last demanding for completion of the entire process of recruitment by October 8, 2015. Following the expiry of the “final time frame” without any positive response from the concerned authorities, he said the candidates are left with no option but to go for indefinite stir until the time their demands are met.
It may be mentioned that the Nagaland Education Mission Society, RMSA under the aegis of the state government had on December 14, 2013 floated an advertisement inviting applications from Naga indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland for filling up of 951 posts of secondary teachers under RMSA including 67 posts of sports instructors.