EMN
Dimapur, July 24
Members of another group of teachers calling themselves the “pre-service teachers’ association” (PSTA) are protesting the results of a recent test for teachers after some of them are failed the test. They have demanded from the authorities that “unselected PSTE trained candidates should all be selected / inducted as primer teachers by virtue of PSTE degree and advertisement published”.
Members of the group staged protests at the District Institute of Education & Training in Mon town on Friday, July 24. They protested the ‘recently declared result of the teacher’s post’ and submitted a memorandum to the district administration.Members of the PSTA gathered at the DIET centre with placards protesting “nepotism” while others demanding ‘closing’ the DIET center in Mon “or appoint us, return two years of our time at DIET”.
Members of the group stated that “the advertisement No.ED/MISE-4/215 dated 23rd Jan 2015” of the School Education directorate “clearly stand for prior preference to the PSTE trained and TET qualified candidates where as the result thus declared was just the opposite”.
They also said that some selected candidates were from “non-Konyak community where as the post mainly for indigenous Konyak”. The group strongly expressed concern that “all is not well in the recruitment process”.
The members also said that they have given written applications to the minister for School Education “but no response from the concern authority” till yet for which the members had to resort to “democratic agitation”.
Members of the PSTA then submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner of Mon district after the agitation.
The memorandum submitted to the administration stated that “unselected PSTE trained candidates should all be selected / inducted as primer teachers by virtue of PSTE degree and advertisement published therefore”.
The show of “favouritism and high handedness” in the selection process “against the PSTE trained/certified” by the State Council of Educational Research and Training “in future should not be practiced”, the memorandum explained.
Further, the members stated that should the “plea for selection to the post of primer teacher go unheeded, the deprived PSTE trained teachers may restore (sic) to undemocratic means, the negative out come if any will fall upon the authority who is/are responsible and if the grievances are not redressed within the stimulate (sic) time…” The members of the group have given the authorities till July 29 to redress their grievances. If the department fails to redress the grievance, the PSTE shall be “compelled to indefinitely close down the DIET, DEO and SDEO office Mon”.
