All Nagaland Pre-Service Teacher Association (ANPSTA) has alleged that for the last several years, the department of education has been appointing primary teachers (PTs) through the back-door on contract, ad hoc, temporary basis in various schools in Nagaland without following the TET guidelines or without conducting any selection process. In a representation addressed to the commissioner & secretary and director school education, the ANPSTA action committee convener Bendangsunep Longkumer and vice-convener Avi Ringa said they have all passed the Nagaland Teacher Eligibility Test conducted in the year 2013 and 2016 and were eligible to be appointed as primary teachers in any school in Nagaland.
The representation stated that despite successfully getting through the Nagaland Teacher Eligibility Test no selection process whatsoever for recruiting primary school teachers from amongst them have been undertaken till date. ANPSTA stated that all back-door appointments deserved to be immediately cancelled/terminated and recruitment be conducted.
In the event its representation was not considered within a period of 15 days, ANPSTA cautioned that it would have no other alternative, but to seek the redressal of its grievance before an appropriate court of law.