RMSA 2016 rejects govt letter, to continue protest

Nagaland RMSA Teachers’ Association (NRMSATA) 2016 batch has rejected the letter issued by the joint mission director of Samagra Shiksha Nagaland, on August 29, stating that it attempted to portray the release of four months’ pending salaries as a resolution while ignoring the core issue of non-implementation of binding court orders.
In a statement, the association asserted that salary was not a concession but the rightful due of employees for services already rendered. The belated release of salaries for April–July 2025, it said, could not absolve the state government of its failure to implement the orders of the courts.
The association also pointed out that while the government claimed to have filed a review petition on August 14, no official notice had been served to them and no stay order had been granted by the Supreme Court. This, it maintained, meant that the judgments delivered in their favour remained valid, operative and binding on the State.
Further, NRMSATA reiterated that its agitation was not about temporary disbursal of delayed salaries but the rightful enforcement of service recognition from 2016, implementation of ROP 2017 with annual increments at par with SSA–RMSA 2010–13 counterparts, and counting of length of service.
It described the government’s call for teachers to resume “bonafide duty” while relying on an unsubstantiated review petition as “misleading and offensive”. The disruption of academic activities, the association said, was caused not by the teachers’ protest but by the government’s prolonged defiance of binding court orders.
Stating that the August 29 letter was a diversionary tactic, NRMSATA said its agitation would continue without compromise until the court judgments were implemented in full.