Dimapur, May 26 : The All Nagaland School Teachers’ Association (ANSTA) and the Nagaland Secondary Schools Field Officers’ Federation (NSSFOF) have sought to buttress its demand for bifurcation of the education sectors into different establishments for claimed reasons of “proper functioning and efficient management of the respective departments.”
The two organizations, currently lobbying for said demand, issued a press release on Thursday explaining why the state must split the secondary, elementary, and primary sections.
The education workers stated it in one good length: “…when other departments are being bifurcated into different establishment for proper functioning and efficient management of the respective departments, we strongly feel that bifurcation of higher secondary education from secondary/elementary/primary section is the most urgent need of the department of Human Resource Management so that respective stages shall take care of their own affairs for total revamping and improvement of the concerned sectors as the particular section is now being deteriorated year by year.”
In the words of the two organizations, requirement and “the need of situation” demand that any department can be bifurcated into separate entities “for smooth functioning of the department.”
For instance, the ANSTA and NSSOF explained, the hitherto Agriculture department was bifurcated into the departments of- horticulture, sericulture, veterinary and animal husbandry, wasteland, soil and water conservation, land resources, irrigation and flood control. The intention was to “allow respective sectors to look after its own affairs,” the organizations stated.
Likewise, the two groups offered by way of more instances, the department of PWD is bifurcated into different divisions of- road and bridges, housing, highways, and mechanical engineering.
“The department of School Education has now bifurcated into Youth Resources, SCERT, Higher and Technical Education. The department of SCERT and Higher and Technical Education (has) been again bifurcated into DIET and Technical Education respectively as the time goes by. A time will come when the department of School Education may need to have separate establishments for other sections such as Hindi, language, physical education etc of the department also,” the organizations stated.
“Hence as per need of time and situation, department has to be bifurcated into separate set up for its smooth flow towards overall improvement of it,” the two stated. “Therefore in view of differences of entry point, academic session, cadres, seniority, proportional channels, and mode of appointment between the higher secondary and secondary, elementary and primary cadres, the association has been demanding for bifurcation of the two cadres so as to promote smooth functioning and efficient management of the department towards Quality and Systematic Education in the State.”
To bring a “positive change in the lower stages of education” in the education department, the two stated in conclusion, the state’s authority and the “present welfare government” to reconsider the “genuine demand” of the “secondary/elementary/primary cadres” by bifurcating said department from the higher secondary institution “in the larger interest of formative stages of education in the state.”
