GOVT AGREES TO ENSF’S DEMANDS (AUG 14) : The Government of Nagaland has agreed in principle the five demands of an organization representing four districts of eastern regions of Nagaland, Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF).

 The department of School Education also issued a statement in response to the ENSF’s demands. “With reference to your five point charter of demand submitted to the School Education department, and with reference to our telephonic discussion held today, I am to state that the state government have agreed in principle to your five point charter of demand, and will also take all necessary steps immediately to implement them on the ground within the shortest possible time,” stated chief secretary of Nagaland Lalthara in a reply to the ENSF today.  Dubious teachers’ regularization rejected in present form.  However, the official letter of the state government clarified that the recent order/notification of School Education department, regularizing or reappointing and posting teachers who were under investigations by SIT of Vigilance Commission, is already in obeyance, and would not be implemented in future also in it present form. The state government also agreed that all the teacher posts that had transferred out of the eastern districts in the past would be restored by creating the required compensatory posts under SSA/RMSA. These posts would be filled up by candidates from “eastern Nagaland” through district level recruitment boards to be constituted in each of the four districts. The only exception is in the case of teachers’ posts for subjects such as science and mathematics, where suitable candidates from “eastern Nagaland” are not available, the State said.

The directorate of School Education also issued a separate communiqué today in reference of the ENSF’s. In view of the Cabinet’s decision to keep the deployment of “regularized bogus teachers” in abeyance the department is making efforts to redeploy all the “regularized bogus teachers who does not belong to the eastern Nagaland to be posted out from the four districts of Mon, Longleng, Tuensang and Kiphire.” The department has assured that none of the sanctioned post of the teachers against the four districts ‘shall be taken away to other districts.’
Further, posts created under SSA/RMSA (both graduate and under graduate) against the four districts and recruitment to these posts shall be made from amongst the candidates hailing from the four districts of the “eastern Nagaland” and it shall remain within the four districts, School Education department said. “The department is making an exercise to advertise all teachers’ posts sanctioned against eastern Nagaland within one month and recruitment will be done for the candidates hailing from the four districts of eastern Nagaland,” the communiqué stated.

Director of School Education N Khevito Sema requested the ENSF to withdraw the the phase wise agitation program Enabling the state government to start working for fulfillment of the above assurances and for improving the infrastructure and standards of education in eastern Nagaland,”