ANPSTA puts forth list of demands

All Nagaland Pre-Service teacher association (ANPSTA) has submitted a list of demands through an “instant representation” to the Director of School Education, in regard to recruitment/appointment of primary school teachers.
The representation from ANPSTA president, Hiyalo Jemu and general secretary, Ajano Z. Humtsoe, referred to the Right To Education (RTE) Act No. 35, and said according to the provision of the act, the National Council For Teacher Education (NCTE), New Delhi, laid down that a person has to pass the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) as a pre-requisite qualification to be eligible for appointment as a teacher. As such, ANPSTA requested that the requirement of TET qualification be enforced for online recruitment of primary teachers.
Also, the association sought to remind the department that the Nagaland SBTE had approved that a “person who is a graduate need not have the required percentage in 10+2.” As such, it said, one can be considered eligible for PSTE/D.Ed/D.El.Ed with below 45% if one is a graduate from recognized boards or universities.
Having finished the teacher training course at various DIET centres in Nagaland “with below 45% on the ground that we are graduate”, it once again appealed to the department to reconsider and restructure the procedure for online recruitment of primary teachers. ANPSTA expressed surprise over the advertisement of January 11 which said there were only 196 primary teacher posts vacant in the state when there had been 532 vacant posts “during the freeze period.” It appealed to the department to fill up the remaining posts through the normal procedure of recruitment along with the 196.
It said that the “instant representation” had been written in favour of the association members from Kohima, Dimapur, Mokokchung, Wokha, Zunheboto, Phek & Peren districts, and if the representation was not considered by the department, the association said it would initiate its own course of action.