Primary Teachers fume at non-payment of salary
Source: The Sangai Express / S Singlianmang Guite

Lamka, October 13 2012: Over 190 primary teachers of Churachandpur district, who received official appointment in December last after a lapse of about four-years after clearing the written exams along with several others, are again fuming over non-payment of salaries even after ten month of joining their new job.

The government assigned 1603 newly recruited teachers to several schools with an order issued on December 15 last year, said Lianmuanthang Valte, the teacher association's secretary.

He added, 'We have been rendering our service ever since the appointment, but none of us has been given our salaries.

Our morale has been put under serious stress as a result of the severe financial hardship we are forced into.

For the past ten months we have been spending our own resources to meet the expenses needed of a teacher, and the case is even nightmarish for those posted in far flung areas.

We won't be able to withstand this any longer' .

The Churachandpur District Primary Teachers' Association is now of the opinion that they should be at the look-out for means to address the injustices.

'We are considering what options we have and what would be the best.

But before we embark on anything that will even appear as an agitation, it is our humble appeal to the authorities concerned that all our pending salaries be released without any further delay,' the association said.

Otherwise, the association will be compelled to take the course that it believes would make the government act, said Association president T Mangcha Haokip.

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