Dimapur, March 28 (EMN): A group of teachers has asked the state government led by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio to make good on an assurance of regular salary to teachers.
In an open letter addressed to Rio; the minister of School Education; the director of School Education; and the director of State Mission Authority, SSA; the general secretary of the Wokha unit of Nagaland Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Teachers’ Association (NSSATA) has stated that the SSA teachers in Nagaland have been left unpaid since November 2017.
“That the SSA teachers have been experiencing this irregular payment of salary since the year 2013 till date. The matter has been made known to the concerned authority (sic) for a number of times in the form of representations, series of meeting with the authority and agitations. The latest being the stir at the Directorate of School Education office in the year 2016 where the poor unpaid teachers including those nursing mothers from far flung areas who participated to show resentment were water cannoned by the authority,” it stated.
For four consecutive years, it stated, said teaching community has been ‘made to experience drsy Christmas.’
“...this appeal is brought to the notice, for release of legitimate dues at the earliest, to the authority concerned with the faith and hopes that let the 'change' come and take its rightful place at this given right time,” the letter read.
