Ad hoc teachers’ in Nagaland continue to stir demanding job regularisation

The protest being held by the ad hoc school teachers in Nagaland demanding immediate service regularisation entered its seventh day on Sunday.

A total of 1,166 members of the All Nagaland Adhoc Teachers Group (ANATG)-2015 batch, who were appointed to teach in various government schools throughout the state between 1994 and 2012, held nonviolent protests outside the State Civil Secretariat from Monday through Thursday.
When the state administration gave them “no positive response,” they changed the way they were protesting by having 38 volunteers start a hunger strike on Thursday night.

The rest of the protestors continued with the peaceful sit-in protest.

The state government’s “piecemeal solution” to form a High-Powered Committee was rejected by the ad hoc teachers, who made the decision to continue the agitation until their demand for rapid service regularisation was met.

The government had been arguing that it was not in a position to regularise its services because of the standing order of the Supreme Court and the High Court not to regularise ad hoc appointees.

The ANATG-15 Batch had made the decision on Saturday to submit a representation to Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio to take notice of the demand of the ad hoc teachers.