Students’ body Democratic Students’ Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) today blamed the state government for the High Court order for cancellation of the 1675 Primary Teachers in the state education department.
President of the student body Moirangthem Angamba, while speaking to media persons at its head office at Keishampat junction said that those teachers were recruited by an expert committee of the state government amidst hue and cry on alleged irregularities from various sections of the society.
On September 12, 2006 state government notified an advertisement for recruitment of 1423 primary teacher, 203 Hindi primary teacher and 49 Hindi graduate teachers. The written test for recruitment was held on December 6, 2006. And the result was declared on September 2007. The viva voce for the selected candidates was held on December 2009. And the appointment letter was handed over to the successful candidate on December 2011.
Moirangthem Angamba further said that after series of complaints were received by the state government from sections of the society regarding the irregularities on the recruitment process the state government had formed an expert committee headed by the chief secretary. He said the matter was discussed in dept by the government authority and a review committee headed by the Director of Education (S) finally gave approval for allotment of appointment of letter.
Angamba said that among the selected primary teachers, 326 OBC candidates were selected which was not mentioned in the government notification for recruitment of the teacher. Even after knowing that something wrong had happened to the procedure for selection of the primary teacher, the state government appointed the teachers that they selected to their recruitment process.
Mentioned may be made that 9 candidates who had strongly stood against the wrong produre of the government and applied RTI seeking their answer notes. After getting information through RTI the nine candidates move the matter to Manipur High Court and finally the High Court verdict on October 6, 2015 directed the government for cancellation of the selected teachers. The selected teachers have been on pay roll for almost five years.
DESAM President Angamba said that the government even after knowing that there has been something wrong to the procedure for selection of the teachers gave them appointment letter. The government also knows that the selection might face problem after some days, he added. On the other hand if the 1675 teachers were cancelled then the students of the state might suffer a lot due to lack of teachers.
Angamba further appealed the government to deliver justice to all the selected teachers and to those complaining the irregularities to the selection process.
