Suspense continues to loom large over the protesting Ad hoc teachers as the group had decided to continue with their indefinite hunger strike on Friday evening. The decision comes after the general body of the Ad hoc teachers was indecisive on whether they should accept the decision taken in between the All Nagaland Ad hoc Teachers Group-2015 batch delegation and the state government.

The government had earlier during the meeting assured to set up a High-Powered Committee (HPC) within one month to examine and study the matter and further make recommendations to the government within a period of one year.

The ANATG officials along with the All Nagaland School Teachers Association (ANSTA) had a sitting with the Commissioner & Secretary of School Education & SCERT earlier this afternoon which was followed by another sitting with the Chief Secretary and other government officials.

A crucial general meeting of the ANATG-2015 batch is slated to be held tomorrow to reach to a consensus to further discuss on the assurance given to the ANATG delegation by the government.

“We are not satisfied with the decision taken up. Unless we are regularised, we will not go home and will not perform our duties,” stated one of the members of ANATG-2015 batch.

The protesting Ad hoc teachers of the 2015 batch had launched an indefinite hunger strike today to press for regularisation of their service. The Ad hoc teachers have been holding a silent sit-in protest outside the Nagaland Civil Secretariat in Kohima demanding the state government for regularisations of their service. Today was the fifth day of their protest.

The teachers have been relentlessly demanding regularisation of their service while the state government maintains that it is constrained by a standing court order to fulfill demand of the Ad hoc teachers.