Kohima: A group of protesting school teachers in Nagaland on Monday wrote a letter to Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, seeking his intervention to fulfill their demand for service regularisation.
The teachers, who were appointed on an ad hoc basis in government schools, have been demanding regularization of their jobs.
With their agitation entering the eighth day on Monday, 1,166 members of the All Nagaland Ad hoc Teachers Group refused to accept a government proposal to set up a high-powered committee to look into their demand.
At least 38 volunteers have been observing a hunger strike, while others continued their protest at Naga Solidarity Park in Kohima.
The agitating teachers were appointed on an ad hoc basis in various government schools between 1994 and 2012.
The Nagaland government had been maintaining that it was not in a position to regularise their services because of the standing order of the Supreme Court and the High Court not to regularise ad hoc appointees.
A total of 1,166 members of the All Nagaland Ad hoc Teachers Group (ANATG)-2015 batch, appointed to different government schools in the state from 1994 to 2012, have been staging protest in Kohima for the last eight days.