Kohima: Shashank Pratap Singh, the principal director of school education, promised a temporary fix for the Political Science vacancy at Government Higher Secondary School Sungro. The school lost two teachers to simultaneous maternity leave. Singh confirmed the PGT English teacher returns to work Tuesday. He stated the department already discussed staffing needs with the school principal.
Singh noted that the state department consumes 25 percent of the total salary and pension budget. Financial strain looms. The 16th Finance Commission plans to drop the revenue deficit grant, which could cost Nagaland up to 5,000 crore rupees every year. Singh warned that the government must rationalize its workforce to survive. He said, "The government system should not expand at the expense of private-sector participation and entrepreneurship."
Many wards and villages suffer from fragmented school systems with too many separate institutions in close proximity. This broken model drives up dropout rates and hurts student retention. Singh wants to combine primary, middle, high, and higher secondary levels under single administrative structures. These composite schools would maximize teacher and resource efficiency.
Teacher assignments now rely on actual enrollment and class counts rather than static, sanctioned posts. The department is currently rebalancing non-teaching staff to balance the books across the state.
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