All Nagaland Ad hoc Teachers’ Group deferred its sit-in and called a general meeting after talks failed to resolve key demands.
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KOHIMA — The All Nagaland Ad hoc Teachers’ Group (ANATG), batch 2015, on Tuesday decided to suspend its sit-in for a day and instead convene a general meeting on Wednesday to gather members’ views on the inputs received during discussions with the government.
About 49 members, including the core committee and general members of ANATG, attended a meeting convened by Advisor for School Education and SCERT, Dr. Kekhrielhoulie Yhome, along with officials from the Directorate of Education, the Secretariat and the All Nagaland School Teachers’ Association at the directorate earlier in the day.
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Briefing media at the protest site outside the Directorate of School Education, a core committee member described the three-hour-long meeting as “fruitful” but said the group’s key demands remained unresolved.
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“Somehow, the ANATG’s demand for a specific time frame for service regularisation and, secondly, for segregating the 1,166 members’ files still remains unfulfilled despite the long deliberations we had today,” he said.
On the reaction of members who attended the meeting, he added that many were “not satisfied” as the demands were left unfulfilled. Nevertheless, he said the meeting had produced “some inputs”, the details of which were not disclosed ahead of the general meeting scheduled for February 18.
He said the core committee would deliberate further on Tuesday night and that instead of continuing the agitation on Wednesday, the group would hold a general meeting with all members where thoughts, views and opinions would be exchanged. He added that they did not get time to discuss the matter with general members on Tuesday due to limited time.
The ANATG entered the 11th day of its sit-in protest on Tuesday, after launching the agitation on February 4 at multiple locations and currently outside the Directorate of School Education, Kohima.