Concern over ENSF stir

Eastern Nagaland Women Oraganisation (ENWO) has expressed concern over the ENSF agitation against the government’s new policy for recruitment of teachers.
Appreciating the government’s new policy which it felt was “undoubtedly” intended to improve teachers, the ENWO through its president Asangla Cholong, however said that the policy framework overlooked the context of social and economic inequalities in Naga society. On this basis, the ENWO asserted that the question of whether the policy is just or not could be answered.
The Organization viewed the reaction of the ENSF as an opposition to the negative social and economic consequences which the policy might create in Eastern Nagaland.
ENWO felt it would be appropriate for the government to accordingly reformulate the policy.
It may be mentioned that the ENSF is demanding relaxation of 10 years for teachers of the four districts of Mon, Tuensang, Longleng and Kiphire comprising of Konyak, Chang, Sangtam, Phom, Yimchunger and Khiamniungan tribes, from the purview of the new teachers’ recruitment policy, which made it mandatory that every graduate teacher should possess B.Ed degree. The ENSF earlier informed that it would start its third phase of agitation from October 28.