Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) has reiterated its demand that teachers from the six backward tribes (Konyak, Chang, Yimchunger, Khiamniungan, Phom and Sangtam) be excluded from the purview of new teachers’ recruitment policy for ten years.
The federation also demanded setting up of teachers’ training centres in all DC and ADC headquarters in the four districts of Mon, Tuensang, Kiphire and Longleng, before implementation of the new recruitment policy in the four districts.
ENSF president YP Chillio Khiam in a press said the Federation had earlier on July 11, 2008, submitted an ultimatum to the chief secretary demanding revocation of the new teachers’ recruitment policy made during the President’s Rule in the State.
The federation in the memorandum sought ten years relaxation for the people of the four backward districts so that the “backward educated unemployed youth” could also get training to qualify as teachers.
“Before the deadline of ENSF ultimatum, the State cabinet had considered our demand with certain relaxation for the six backward tribes to get appointed as teacher and also get training within the relaxed period, but there is no official intimation to the ENSF office till now,” the federation said.
In the meantime, ENSF said the Director, SCERT, had issued a press release notifying that the State government would be enforcing the new teachers’ recruitment policy, thereby “directly rejecting the ENSF genuine demand.”
Asserting that the federation would not compromise on its demand, ENSF informed all its federating units to be prepared to undertake any agitation till the demand was fulfilled.
ENSF also cautioned that the government and SCERT department would bear sole responsibility for any untoward incident that might arise in the course of the agitation.
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