{"id":102475,"date":"2018-03-29T00:47:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T00:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2018\/03\/29\/ssa-teachers-demand-release-of-pending-salary\/"},"modified":"2018-03-29T00:47:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T00:47:26","slug":"ssa-teachers-demand-release-of-pending-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/29\/ssa-teachers-demand-release-of-pending-salary\/","title":{"rendered":"SSA teachers demand release of pending salary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Nagaland SSA Teachers\u2019 Association (NSSATA) has demanded immediate release of the pending salary to SSA teachers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">In an open letter to chief minister, school education minister, school education director and SSA director on Wednesday, NSSATA called for adherence to the government\u2019s letter of November 2016 that assured regular payments of monthly salaries to SSA teachers. The teachers should not be made to beg for their hard-earned \u201cpaltry salary\u201d and instead be enthusiastically teaching in schools, it added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">While acknowledging various welfare activities being initiated by the present government, NSSATA said it was constrained to write the open letter appealing for redressal of the \u201cimmeasurable hardships\u201d being faced by the teachers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Reminding the government that the SSA teachers had not been paid for the last five months (from November 2017 till March this year), the letter said salary payment had been irregular since 2013. The matter has been made known to the concerned authority a number of times in the form of representations, meetings with authorities concerned and even stirs, it added and recalled the dharna at the directorate of school education office in 2016 where unpaid teachers, including nursing mothers from far flung areas, had participated to show resentment and where the administration had used a water cannon to try and disperse them.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Stating that the SSA teachers were experiencing \u201cdry Christmas\u201d and \u201cdry New Year\u201d for the past four years, the association also lamented that while the authority concerned talked about welfare of school children, the salary of teachers \u2013 their only source of income \u2013 was held up for several months.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">NSSATA said the bright future of students in the State was imperilled as teachers with empty stomachs could not provide quality education.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">The open letter was signed by the association\u2019s Wokha unit general secretary Z Libenthung Murry.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagaland SSA Teachers\u2019 Association (NSSATA) has demanded immediate release of the pending salary to SSA teachers.&nbsp; In an open letter to chief minister, school education minister, school education director and SSA director on Wednesday, NSSATA called for adherence to the government\u2019s letter of November 2016 that assured regular payments of monthly salaries to SSA teachers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}