RPP alleges anomalies in GT Seniority List

July 1, 2022 17 Views No Comment

Dimapur, July 1 (MExN): The Rising People’s Party (RPP), on June 30, alleged anomalies in 2012 Graduate Teachers’ Seniority List and attributed the same as the main reason why Eastern Nagaland has suffered so much in terms of education

“The contentious 2012 Graduate Teachers’ Seniority List is the reason why no Graduate Teachers have been promoted to the 300 posts of Asst. Headmasters and Headmasters’ posts for the last 10 years,” maintained the RPP in a press release.

Such is the situation that “former students now outrank their former teachers in the Seniority List due for promotion as drawn up by the Nagaland’s Department of School Education (DoSE) and wondered whether the department has “dirty tricks” section.

Among others, the party alleged that many Primary Teachers has managed to “sneak into” the 2012 list, thereby victimising the genuine Graduate Teachers.

Further, it maintained that different yardsticks were used in drawing up the 2012 List and with “Regularisation being the yardstick,” the RPP illustrated that “a student who was previously under the tutelage of an ‘Adhoc Teacher’ is now ‘Senior’ in the Seniority List because when the student decided to enter the profession, his/her entry point was as a ‘Regularized Teacher.’”

“The ‘Adhoc Teacher’ is ‘Now’ way below in the Seniority List because he/she was only ‘Regularized’ after the former student,” it added.

The party buttressed its claim by citing the High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) pass percentage of Government schools in the region from 2013-2022.

The data showed that the highest pass percentage was just 24.25% in 2021, while the qualification rates in other years ranged from 8.46% (2016) to 16.75% (2020).

It further asserted that it is the main reason why Eastern Nagaland has suffered in terms of education resulting and perpetually lacking behind others.

Accordingly, the RPP extended it support to the grievances of the All Nagaland Graduate Teachers’ Forum (ANGTF) on this issue.

The party fully supports the “one-time” measure put forth by the ANGTF to resolve the promotion impasse in the department, it added.

The ‘one-time’ measure called for promotion of Graduate Teachers with over 30 years of service to AHMs and HMs with “immediate effect.”

Meanwhile, the RPP alleged that Advisor and the Commissioner & Secretary, the Principal Director of the department, as the UDA Coalition “are very much aware of the man-made disease plaguing DoSE, and yet they all prefer to hide like the proverbial Ostrich in the sand.”

Source: https://morungexpress.com/rpp-alleges-anomalies-in-gt-seniority-list