Mizoram teachers threatened to move court over warning

Aizawl, Oct 19 (UNI) The Mizoram Secondary School Teachers Association (MSSTA), the teachers apex body, today threatened to go to court if the government fails to revoke the warning to the officials of the association for allegedly making statement aganist government policy.

The government had issued a warning to Lalrammawia, President of MSSTA, and the headmaster of Endala Middle School of Aizawl last week charging him with having supplied wrong information to a local newspaper over supply of text books.

He was further charged with having urged the deputy secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy to conduct an investigation on the matter of text book supply and instigating a governing board member of the SSA Dr L N Tluanga to bring up the matter in a board meeting.

The official warning pointed out that after careful investigation of charges framed against him, Lalrammawia is warned not to indulge further in this kind of conduct unsuitable for a government employee and that any further indulgence of this kind would invite disciplinary action against him.

Meanwhile, in an emergency executive meeting MISSTA today resolved that the association was shocked by the warning issued to its president by the education department based on 'lies'.

The meeting decided that if the warning to take disciplinary action on Lalrammawia for future breach of conduct is not revoked, it would take the department to court.

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