All Nagaland Fine Art Teachers Association (ANFTA) has threatened to boycott class if the government continued to turn a deaf ear to the association’s demand.
The association said it had submitted six representations to the responsible department since 2010, but the department has failed to take any action.
ANFTA president V Hetoi Swu told this correspondent that the drawing teachers in the state were not getting equal scale pay like physical teachers, Hindi teachers, carpentry instructor, knitting instructor etc which they ought to.
The association asserted that the drawing teachers took training outside the state without any incentive as there no drawing institute in the state. ANFTA, however, stated that employees of other departments of same category, who took training within the state, were enjoying the higher pay scale, which it described was “discrimination.” ANFATA cautioned that failure to fulfil its demand at the earliest would compel the drawing teachers numbering around 280 teachers across the state to boycott the class in the first part of the year.