ANGTF holds general consultative meeting

May 29, 2023 28 Views No Comment

KOHIMA, MAY 29 (MExN): The general consultative meeting of All Nagaland Graduate Teachers Forum (ANGTF) was held on May 27 at CANSSEA hall, Bayavü, Kohima.

A press release from the forum informed that the house resolved to the support the Special Leave Petition (SLP) case at the Supreme Court to do away the anomalies laying in the Education Department with issues related to GTs seniority.

It further impressed upon the Education Department to count GTs seniority with effect from the Date of Appointment/Date of Joining with equal treatment for the benefit of MACP.

The meeting deliberated on the issues of GT seniority list 2022 which was prepared base on the judgment of the Gauhati High Court, Kohima bench in writ appeal no 17(K) of 2017 with writ appeal number 16(K) of 2017 dated 12/12/2019.

“The petitioner, the so call late G/Ts had discreetly won the case so the G/Ts filed a Review Petition in High Court countering the case, but knowing the consequences the Education Department Officers and ANSTA had requested the G/Ts and the Late G/Ts to withdraw their case from the court and settle the Case outside the Court with an agreement in principle to count seniority by honouring the seniors,” the ANGTF stated.

It added that the G/Ts in support of the agreement withdrew the case; however the Late G/Ts discreetly had not withdrawn their case, hence, 2022 G/Ts seniority list was prepared in their favour, superseding the directly appointed G/Ts. Therefore, the G/Ts were compelled to file Special Leave Petition (SLP) at Supreme Court.

On the other hand, the ANGTF said that the department is applying different yardstick to determine the seniority; some were counted from the date of appointment, some were counted from the date of joining, some from date of Cabinet Decision /Date of Regularization. “In some instances, some students of the G/Ts are now senior to their own teachers, Supersession where 2003/2004 appointees had superseded their seniors appointed in 1991/1992 a gap of 12/13 years,” it added.

The ANGTF further stated that mushrooming of so many groups amongst the teachers is “conceived by the concerned department knowingly or unknowingly by the nature of their appointment, which is taking them to court today which is incurring a huge expenditure from their hard earned money.”

It further questioned if the teachers should be in the court or remain in the school to teach the students. “Therefore, the Department is responsible to seriously look in the matter and solve the problem at the earliest,” it stated, while requesting all the effected member teachers to come forward in unity