ANATG suspends protest after 11 days; to hold general meeting today

All Nagaland Adhoc Teachers’ Group (ANATG) 2015 batch on Tuesday announced the suspension of its 11-day peaceful sit-in protest following a high-level meeting with officials of the state government and school education department.
Addressing media persons after the meeting, a core committee member informed that a 49-member ANATG delegation, comprising core leaders and general members, attended the meeting at around 11am in the directorate of school education. The meeting was convened by advisor School Education and SCERT Dr. Kekhrielhoulie Yhome.
The core committee member stated that the meeting, which lasted nearly three hours, was attended by the principal director of school education, the joint director of Samagra Shiksha, officials from the secretariat and the department, and representatives of the parent body ANSTA.
He explained that the decision to include general members in the delegation was taken to ensure that the broader voice of the agitating teachers was directly heard by the government after days of continuous protest.
The member described the discussions as fruitful and cordial and conveyed appreciation to the advisor and departmental officials for engaging with the delegation.
However, he clarified that the group’s core demands — a specific timeframe for service regularisation of the 2015 batch and segregation of the pending 1,166 files — remained unresolved despite detailed deliberations.
He acknowledged that many members were dissatisfied as the demands for segregation of the files and a clear timeframe for regularisation were not fulfilled.
Following the meeting, ANATG core committee convened an internal discussion and decided to temporarily suspend the sit-in protest. He informed that a general meeting of all members would be held on February 18 to deliberate on the inputs received from the government and to decide the next course of action.
The group reiterated that its demands remained unchanged and maintained that further steps would be decided collectively after consultations with the broader membership.