Our Correspondent
KOHIMA, APRIL 8
The RashtriyaMadhyamikShikshaAbhiyan (RMSA) Nagaland is confronted with yet another issue with more than 100 candidates who qualified in RMSA examination for secondary teachers launching an indefinite protest today, demanding immediate appointment orders.
Protesters gathered outside the RMSA Nagaland office near Old Secretariat, Kohima this morning with their demand, voicing their ire that the department has failed to absorb them into service even after being selected for appointment through legitimate selection process.
The “qualified but aggrieved candidates” told reporters here that they sat for the examination as per an advertisement for recruitment of over 900 secondary teachers under RMSA which was published on December 14, 2013. The written examination was held in May2014 and the result for the same was declared in June 2014 and subsequently the viva voce was held in July 2015 and the result declared in November 2015. Following the declaration of the result, the candidates said thedepartment issued appointment letters to over 600 selected candidates but 111 are yet to receive theirs.
They informed that they submitted a memorandum to the Mission Director RMSA Nagaland on March 14 last and also met him personally on March 28 and April 7 but the authority has failed to deliver any assurance, they alleged.They also claimed that while waiting for the appointment order, some of the candidates’ qualifying age has already expired.
After waiting for more than two years with the hope to secure a job, they said they have been dejected time and again and have now lost their confidence on the authorities. It has been learnt that some of the selected candidates had even quit their earlier jobs in private schools and colleges after getting selected in the RMSA examination and they are now left without any job and income, thus becoming dependent on their parents and families.
Dismayed over the silence of the concerned department, we have no option but to resort to agitation indefinitely until their appointment orders are issued, they added. One of the representatives of the “aggrieved candidates” informed that they would resort to hunger strike if the authorities failed to respond to their demand within the next few days.
The Mission Director RMSA Nagaland, however, could not be contacted and the department’s version as to why the appointment orders for the 111 selected candidates are being delayed, still remains unclear.
