All ad hoc teachers of 2015 batch of Nagaland protested outside the secretariat.

KOHIMA: Braving the heavy rain, the All Nagaland Ad Hoc Teachers Group 2015 batch, comprising 1166 members, took out a peaceful march from Solidarity Park, Kohima to New Secretariat Junction on Monday, demanding regularisation of their services. What did

Addressing a press conference ahead of the protest, the group’s spokesperson, Bendangtemsu Ozukum, said it resorted to a democratic form of protest because the government failed to meet their demands.

Some of the group members were appointed before 2015 but they are eligible to undergo the fitness test to be absorbed as regular employees, he said.

He alleged that the Department of School Education (DoSE) used various tactics to delay the batch-wise test, but he kept quiet and waited patiently until it was held in 2017 after 2 years.

He said the department has so far failed to announce the test results and has not given any explanation as to why it is undeclared.
When the group raised its voice in 2018, the government told them that their service regularization could not be taken up because of a court case filed by Action Committee Against Inhibited Taxation (ACAUT) and Public Service Aspirant Nagaland (PASN). From. ) against gazetted posts of Class I and II which were supposedly accepted as backdoor employment.
After that, he said that the government has given him the sixth ROP scale of pay. Earlier, group members were employed with a fixed salary of Rs 6,600 for primary teachers and Rs 8,260 for graduate teachers on monthly basis.
Ozukum said that ANATG-2015 had made a representation to the government in March 2020 but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all activities came to a standstill.

But despite several representations that were made after the lockdown due to COVID-9, he said the government did not respond.

Left with no other option, he said the group resorted to the democratic form of protest to voice their demands as they were “treated like a stepmother”.