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Dimapur, February 2 (MExN): The Naga Students Federation (NSF) has written to the Chief Secretary of Nagaland demanding disclosure of the SIT investigations report on the bogus teachers’ appointment case. Likewise, the NSF has demanded disclosure on the matter of redeployment of teachers to their respective posts from “non-teaching offices.”
In a letter appended by NSF executives, the federation asked the chief secretary to meet its demand immediately, pointing out that the NSF will “stand all out” in the interest of the public so as to ensure “fair practices to prevail.” The NSF also cautioned that it will not hesitate to ‘defend its rights democratically’ should the government remain a mute spectator to its demands.
The NSF lamented that it is almost a year now that the Education department had been playing the “blame game amongst the officials over the bogus appointment issue.” Consequently the government had instituted the Special Investigation Team to examine the nature of appointments.
The NSF however lamented that the SIT report had been kept in cold storage till date. It pointed out that the investigation had affected the academic career of government schools last year due to shortage of teachers and “government’s unsympathetic” attitude towards the affected schools. The NSF stated that further delay “without any tangible result will not be tolerated by the federation.”
It was also pointed out that while the NSF fully supports the ‘cleansing’ of the Education department “without fear or favor”, however “indefinite type of investigative process would yield no good result for corrective process to take shape in the system.” The “improper” system in the Education department was the result of years of “accumulated problems” the NSF said, adding that the anomalism cannot be ‘cleansed’ by delaying the results of the investigation.
Likewise, the NSF mentioned the long held demand of the students’ body for redeployment of teachers to their respective posting from non-teaching offices such as the Directorate, DEOs/DIS offices or attached to MLAs, parliamentary secretaries or ministers. The demand has not been met, NSF said.
The NSF however lauded the DEO/DIS Dimapur, Niuland and Zunheboto for undertaking redeployment exercise. “Favouritism practiced by the government breeds differences in the department in particular and society at large,” the NSF stated.
The organization said it had been upholding the need for standard and quality in education. It has also been extending its cooperation to the authority concern for strict, fair and just action ever since lacuna was detected in the system especially in the Education department.