SHILLONG: The Meghalaya SSA Schools Association (MSSASA) will serve legal notice to National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) if complete results are not declared.
In a press statement, MSSASA president Aristotle C. Rymbai said the association has resolved to take legal steps after NIOS failed to rectify the anomalies in the results for the Diploma in Elementary Education (D.EL.ED) exams 2015. NIOS goofed the third time it declared the results on June 22.
MSSASA general secretary H.M. Marbaniang said the legal notice will be served to the Chairman of NIOS UP, Noida, Regional Director of NIOS Guwahati, Nodal Officer of NIOS Shillong and also to the Director of Directorate of Educational Research & Training (DERT), Government of Meghalaya.
“If NIOS and DERT fail to reply and fulfil our demands within 14 days, which will be counted from the date of receiving the legal notice, then the association will move the Meghalaya High Court and seek complete results,” he said.
The decision was taken at the general meeting of D.El.Ed trainees held on June 27 and July 1 in Jowai and Shillong together in the presence of aggrieved D.El.Ed trainees of the first batch of 2013 comprising teachers from different categories – SSA, ad hoc and deficit.
MSSASA alleged that the results declared by NIOS on June 22 was incomplete as there were errors in the mark card, mistakes were detected with regard to candidates’ names and their parents.
Rymbai further pointed out that although internal assessment paper marks were given to the candidates, no marks were given for theory paper.
Although marks for Workshop Based Activities (WBA) and Practice Teaching of some trainees were provided but for some, they were the same as published earlier.
Rymbai stated that the NIOS continued committing mistakes and it “has failed to provide professional training (D.El.Ed) to in-service untrained teachers in Meghalaya at the elementary”.
“NIOS has violated its own rules and regulations and violated teachers’ rights,” he added.
