SHILLONG: With no response from the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), Noida, on the fate of the candidates who had either cleared or were pursuing the Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed) course from NIOS, the Meghalaya SSA School Association (MSSASA) has urged the state government to consider the 7822 aggrieved trainees as trained teachers as 75 per cent of them are SSA teachers of Lower Primary and Upper Primary levels.
“We have urged Chief Minister Mukul Sangma in a representation submitted to him on January 31, 2017 to consider all the 7822 aggrieved teachers as trained teachers since it the NIOS which is to be blamed for the present mess”, MSSASA said in a statement on Tuesday. The association reminded that the 4385 trainees of 2013 batch had received their certificates in Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed) course from NIOS. But their marksheets and certificates were withheld due to anomalies in the result declared on September 9 last year. Further, 3437 trainees of the 2014 batch had also completed one year of training from NIOS but their result has not been declared yet.
The association asked the state government to resolve the issue and asserted that it would appeal to the Ministry of Human Resource Development to close down the NIOS in Meghalaya and take action against the state government and the NIOS for putting in jeopardy the career of the trainees.
