Dimapur, April 26 (EMN): The Eastern Naga Students' Federation (ENSF) has backed the demand to stop deputing government teachers with politicians or government departments while reasoning that schools in Eastern Nagaland have been affected most by ‘shortage of teaching staff’.
A press release from the federation on Thursday stated that its call to immediately stop ‘teachers attachment culture’ was made considering the welfare and interest of the students pursuing their studies in the government institutions.
“While the Federation is tirelessly working to do justice to the students; such attachment culture is victimizing the students and benefiting the privileged lot! This practice is not acceptable and tolerable to the Federation as such practices will only pose hysteria in the minds of the students,” it stated.
In the eastern districts of Nagaland, it stated, students are ‘compelled to appear their end examinations without completing the prescribed syllabus owing to the shortage of teachers’ every year.
“This is a serious matter that the government and the department have to consider and take remedial measures instead of nodding head to attach these few teaching staffs to assist the legislators or fill the gap in various departments”.
It warned all the teachers posted to the eastern districts of Nagaland that ‘seeking political shelter without performing one's assigned duty and drawing salary will only invite the Federation to initiate its own course of action’.
The ENSF advised those teachers not willing to perform their duties ‘to resign on moral ground as there are many dedicated young Naga youths ready to serve’.
