NTC slams state govt; appeals for reviewing programmes, policies

Slamming the state government for remaining insensitive and indifferent to the plights of its gullible employees and waking up only when agitations were launched, the Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) said such approach was “pathetic and highly corrupt in nature.”

Reminding that the people deserved good governance, accountabilities and deliverance not false hope and fallacies, NTC has urged the state government to gear up and review its programmes and policies before it collapse.

In a press release, publicity cell, NTC said the ongoing agitation of Nagaland Staff Nurse Association (NSNA), if continued, would adversely affect the patients in government hospitals and health care centres. 

Stating that there were genuine elements of grievances of the in-service nursing staff in medical department needing redress, NTC said those grievances have remained unaddressed for decades.

NTC said public deserved to get unconditional and sincere service from government employees, and in return the welfare of the employees was taken care of by the state government with or without demand. 

“Unfortunately such established civilized culture is now substituted by the culture of selfishness, favouritism and nepotism placing the system of governance in total disarray,” NTC stated.

On the demand of the Unemployed Trained Nurses Association (UTNA), the NTC said the attention of the state government was needed. It stated that if the data provided by UTNA was substantive, there was possibly no valid reason for medical department to keep more than 300 posts of nurse vacancies unfilled. 

“At this rate of having no staff in most of the health centres, it calls for a major review to the policy,” it stated.

NTC has also described as “matters of serious concern” the discrepancies in the department of school education pertaining to lack of basic infrastructural facilities and student-teacher ratio. 

With regard to taking over of schools and up gradation of schools to higher classes under school education department, NTC said it was “now found mostly to be more of political orientation than of genuine development.”

“Why has the school education department up graded those schools to higher grade without assessing its own calibre first?,” the NTC queried. It stated that the schools without proper and adequate infrastructures, schools without teaching faculty strength, schools with ghosts and proxy teachers and some schools with number of teachers more than students were the trade mark of education department. 

After up gradation of schools, NTC said when basic requirements were not provided, it remained to be a bluff, and further asked “Why this department has the habit of biting more than it can chew?”