110 selected RMSA candidates on indefinite sit-in

Around 110 selected candidates of Rashtrya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) in Nagaland today launched an indefinite sit-in-protest seeking appointment as secondary teachers.
The candidates launched the sit-in-protest demanding "immediate issuance of their appointment order" outside RMSA Nagaland Mission Director office here.
The candidates said they had sat for the examination against an advertisement for recruitment of over 900 secondary teachers under RMSA published on December 14, 2013.
The written examination was held on May 24, 2014 and result declared on June 27, 2014. The viva voce was held in July 2015 and its result declared on November 30, 2015.
Thereafter, the Department issued appointment letters to over 600 selected candidates while 111 are yet to receive any appointment letters from the authorities, they said.

"First phase of appointment was done in mid-December last year, whereas candidates to be appointed in the second and third phase are still awaiting their appointment," they said.

The candidates reportedly submitted a memorandum to the Mission Director, RMSA Nagaland, on March 14 and met him personally on March 28, during which the Mission Director asked them to wait till second week of April, 2016.
However, the candidates claimed, the MD did not give any written assurance to them when they met him yesterday.
Therefore, "having waited for more than two years, we have lost our hope on the authorities and launched the agitation seeking justice," said Iheilung, a representative of the agitators.

"We will resort to hunger strike if the authorities do no respond to our call within the next few days," he said.
The MD, RMSA Nagaland, could not be contacted while officials said he has gone to Delhi for some official engagement.